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Word: acceptible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demands: a return of all Arab lands occupied by the Israelis since the 1967 war, and the creation of a Palestinian state. Though neither Bakr nor Assad believes that the Israelis are prepared to make such concessions, it is significant that the Iraqis now seem prepared to accept Israel's existence, at least in principle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Iraq and Syria: A New Axis for Unity | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...also convinced of the necessity of combining various and impressive public campaigns with an energetic and thoughtful quiet diplomacy. The exchange of political prisoners can be an important area of action for quiet diplomacy. I do not accept the contentions against such exchanges that have been expressed in the West. In some cases, this is practically the only realistic way to tear people out of the hell of the camps and prisons. Even if this method can help only a very few people, still, it is a breakthrough, and it assuredly does not harm those who remain behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: Advice on Dissent | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...could only accept 20 people from among 62 applicants," Jane T. Foley, assistant studio professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, who teaches VES 140, "Intermediate Still Photography," said yesterday...

Author: By Steven J. Sampson, | Title: Restricted Enrollment Courses Turn Away Many Students | 2/9/1979 | See Source »

...about 8% last year. But, with Britain's economy bubbling from an infusion of North Sea oil, the unions feel it is time to recoup the sacrifices of the past. They regard Callaghan's effort to impose a 5% ceiling on settlements as a challenge. If they accept the policy, their members' pay hikes would fall, once again, behind the rate of inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Collapse of a Social Contract' | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...infinite snow field of time, but the conception at least carried with it the serenity of the eternal. In recent decades, however, the Steady State model of the universe has yielded in the scientific mind to an even more difficult idea, full of cosmic violence. Most astronomers now accept the theory that the universe had an instant of creation, that it came to be in a vast fireball explosion 15 or 20 billion years ago. The shrapnel created by that explosion is still flying outward from the focus of the blast. One of the fragments is the galaxy we call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: In the Beginning: God and Science | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

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