Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wednesday, Mediators Wayne Horovitz and William Hobgood had persuaded the U.M.W. bargaining council to accept the P. & M. settlement as its own pattern setter. The pressure was now seriously coming to bear on the B.C.O.A. The mine owners, who had only reluctantly answered President Carter's initial plea for new negotiations after their deal with Miller collapsed, had feared such a shift all along. They sensed the U.M.W.'s perverse strength: since the rank and file would not necessarily follow their leader, logic dictated that the Government try to make the more organized opposing party bend toward settlement...
...have added that it would be the costliest lunch in French history. Many analysts who have dissected the left's platform, or Common Program, believe that it will cause severe economic problems and gravely disrupt France's relations with the rest of Europe. Even some Socialist thinkers accept this analysis-if not publicly...
...have accepted majority rule for a future government. The majority of people in Rhodesia are black people. This is what the world has asked us to do. The main criticism over the years has been that we would not accept this. Well, now we've accepted...
When Vorenberg announced his intention to resign as master of Dunster House, he cited a "need to return to a more private life." He nevertheless decided to accept the associate deanship because "I was impressed with the need and opportunity to be useful at the Law School...
...ACSR is only an advisory board, recommending policy to the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, which tells Harvard Management Company, an investment firm set up in 1974 to control 90 per cent of the portfolio, what to do about Harvard's investments. The Corporation accepts about 90 per cent of the ACSR's recommendations, but on sensitive issues the Corporation has a nasty habit of abstaining on shareholder resolutions if the vote of the ACSR on what policy to recommend isn't lopsided--no clear mandate, you see. But even when the Corporation does accept the ACSR's advice...