Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vacillation and near paralysis that have gripped the governo diparcheggio, or "parking-meter government," slapped together two months ago under Premier Aldo Moro. They would make one last-and probably foredoomed-try to cooperate with the other parties on emergency economic measures. If that failed, they would have to accept the inevitability of an early election-probably this June, a year ahead of schedule. It would be an election they may well lose, but the Communists are leery of winning. Given what observers call a choice of "a gun or slow poison" (a quick, risky election or the certainty...
...Andrei Amalrik, 37, spent five years in prison and exile for the smuggling abroad of his book, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?-largely because the answer was an emphatic no. Last week Amalrik agreed to leave the Soviet Union and accept a permanent exit visa to Israel, although neither he nor his wife are Jewish. A tough and often eccentric loner, Amalrik yielded after nearly a year of harassment that began after his release. After finding the pressures "intolerable," he decided to accept the Soviet government's longstanding offer to give him a visa to Israel...
Klein says of Carter: "He is willing to accept good advice, makes sharp intuitive appraisals and picks up complicated economic ideas very fast." According to other aides, Carter is not content with oral briefings but insists that economic ideas be put on paper so that he can read them...
While the B.U. faculty seems, on the whole, to accept the need for substantial reductions in the university's expenses, the body feels Silber's methods have been arbitrary and abrasive. Silber has consistently refused to consult with the faculty representatives in devising the budget for next year, claiming that deans and department chairmen cannot be objective when they are fighting for scarce resources...
...grief and rage with such purity and tact that at times she seems like a Mid dle Western Antigone, challenging the authority of the state in the name of what individuals hold most sacred. This might be too high-blown a comparison for the farmer's wife to accept. But she would probably agree with Sophocles' ancient heroine that "it is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands...