Word: accepting
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...increased the buying power of German workers. Given the current rates of inflation, the decision represented a deterioration in labor's standard of living. Commenting on this remarkable economic behavior, one German economist said, "German labor unions see unemployment as the inevitable result of the international economic recession. They accept the fact that in order to remain competitive in the international market, German firms must raise their productivity and this may easily mean a greater number of lay-offs. German labor unions believe that in the long run, full employment will only be assured by a strong and healthy economy...
Gone are the days of German political timidity and self-doubt--a fact which both France and the Soviet Union find difficult to accept (see, for example, Michel Debre's recent article in Le Monde, "Is Germany Becoming a Danger Again?"). More assertive than his predecessors, Willy Brandt turned his back on twenty-five years of German guilt-ridden subservience, and pursued a vigorous Ostpolitik designed to reconcile West Germany with its Eastern neighbors and provide West German diplomacy with a greater freedom of maneuver. Despite European fears that Brandt was about to engineer another Rapallo, and bitter domestic criticism...
Still, tensions remain. The older Republicans, mainly for Reagan, have bristled at the intense pressures being applied by the insurgents, who generally back Ford. Three weeks ago, Reed was angered by what he termed Carmichael's "lies" in claiming that Ford then had 30 votes and Reagan would accept second place on a Ford ticket. Repeated soundings by TIME correspondents showed that Mississippi had been leaning toward Reagan, but his choice of Schweiker pushed the delegation into a truly uncertain category...
...people willingly torture their fellow human beings? Oxford University Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry Anthony Storr argues that often the torturer is motivated not by malice or by sadism but by an overpowering will to obey. "Torturers," says Storr, "are hierarchical people in that they accept and seek authority structures. They are people who obey orders without question." Whether leftist or rightist, many torturers link a fervent patriotism with a fanatical self-righteousness. Their victims often describe these torturers as intelligent but unbalanced, full of moral certitude but viciously vindictive toward people who hold beliefs contrary to their...
...because Miller constructs his characters with such care and complexity, the play has the potential for surviving Nixon's downfall. And the mood he made pervasive has not dissipated totally; rather, it has taken on new permutations. "Never accept less than the best," the coach admonishes his ex-stars...