Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moments later, the Secretary of State produced a crisp white envelope and read aloud the contents of the five-page handwritten letter. Sadat nodded his head slowly as he learned of the meeting, which Carter suggested be held in the U.S. on Aug. 26, and of Begin's acceptance. Sadat said that he preferred not to travel until after the end of Ramadan. Vance offered to change the date. Replied Sadat: "I accept...
...four months after the contract expired, talks dragged on. To induce the union to accept the new contract, management offered tempting wage increases; the pressmen would not budge. With no agreement in sight, the papers set a deadline of Aug. 8 for a settlement and pledged to institute their new rules unilaterally if no agreement were reached. After the publishers postponed the deadline for 24 hours, the pressmen came up with a counterproposal that was swiftly rejected; the publishers left the negotiating table to post their new work conditions, and the pressmen walked...
Therein, of course, lies the point. What Stone was saying in his novel was that a trashy culture, America in the '60s, produced precisely the trashy counterculture it deserved, and also the trashy, unromantic criminal life it might have expected. Even if one could not entirely accept his relentlessly bleak view of contemporary life, there was a certain symbolic weight to Stone's characters, a naturalistic force and detail in his writing that carried the reader along, however glumly. The movie strips most of that texture away in order to concentrate on the action. The result...
...forbidding artificial contraception for Catholics, Paul cited natural law, but a more important reason lay in the consequences he foresaw: "a wide and easy road...toward conjugal infidelity and a general lowering of morality." Millions of Catholics, unwilling to accept Paul's reasoning, disobeyed the encyclical...
...accompaniment of recorded bangs. The wax museum went bust. The wall made its last appearance at a Vancouver nightclub, and then Patey dismantled and stored the thing. Now, if any nostalgia enthusiast feels nostalgia for the wall where seven gangsters were shot, George Patey will accept any reasonable offer...