Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that feels the management should control." Some older workers say they would have a different attitude if they were younger. "Pursuing a career, and being a woman, I'd want it," one woman says. Most older workers believe the young supervisor's concept of a common goal and also accept Gibson's concern that, with unionization, the third floor would lose its "flexibility." "Everything would tend to get frozen," Gibson continues, "everything would be codified in a considerably more detailed way than...
Still, the pace of Carter's ascendancy has been breathtaking. Before the New Hampshire primary, he was unknown to 55% of the electorate; now he is known to 82% and viewed as accept able by 59%. Based on answers from the people who were polled, the Carter phenomenon seems the result of two factors: 1) the hunger for a Democratic candidate who can win in November and 2) the search for an indefinable quality of moral leadership at a time when 61% of the respondents feel something is morally wrong in the nation. That search for moral leadership promises...
...bargaining is the first major challenge for new Prime Minister James Callaghan. His Labor government is pressing on the T.U.C. a novel proposal: accept another year of stringent wage restraint in exchange for a substantial cut in workers' income taxes. The government's plan, detailed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, calls for limiting pay increases to 3% (an average of $3.70 per week) over the twelve months starting Aug. 1. That is the expiration date for present voluntary wage controls, which limit all raises to ?6 (at present exchange rates, a bit less than...
...scandal has touched off both criticism of and strong cadet support for the code. According to Plebe John Cook. the strictly enforced code "means you can trust each other completely." Adds Senior Cadet Hank Keirsey: "It's just something you accept absolutely. People's lives depend on our integrity." But another cadet complains that the "code doesn't really develop integrity because it is based on fear...
...more students decide to enlist in ROTC programs than MIT will accept, Dean Rosovsky said this week, the issue will have to be reconsidered. For now, he said, the matter is more or less in abeyance, because there do not appear to be many students who really want to take ROTC courses...