Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...child's game of pretend is over. A major Arab leader has had the courage to publicly accept what is: Israel exists. The rays of peace peek through a stormy sky. Why has it taken so long...
...cannot be formed, new elections must be called. One possibility is that Eanes will ask Soares himself-or possibly an independent-to form a government made up largely of technocrats. Such a nonpolitical Cabinet might be able to fashion an economic salvation plan that the parties would have to accept if a strong case was made that the future of the country was at stake. In any case, Soares is confident that he will be back in power sooner or later. "Within a few weeks or months, when it is seen that another solution does not work," he said last...
...first homeland to accept independence, Transkei, at least had the distinction of being virtually a self-contained entity with an Indian Ocean coastline and a deep-water port. Landlocked BophuthaTswana, by contrast, consists of seven patches of territory scattered from the northwestern Transvaal to the Orange
After this kind of treatment at other schools, when Harvard sends you a postcard at the most and gives you the impression that it just might accept you if you're lucky, most high-school ballplayers fall for the wine-and-dine routine. When prospective footballers do visit Harvard, they are put up on the couch of whoever gets stuck with them and are fed in the dining halls. If you had a choice between Tournedos du Boeuf or Polynesian meatless balls, which would you choose...
Faculty members and administrators here have been reduced to making small bets on whether Dean Rosovsky will accept the Yale presidency, which he was apparently offered last week...