Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appliance-company executive: "How in hell can you make plans for production when you don't know what the policy really is and can't find out?" Thundered Joe Morris, president of the Canadian Labor Congress: "This is an outrageous, unjust policy which we will never accept...
...case and report his findings to Justice Minister Basford. At week's end, Deschenes's report found that the judicial approaches had been made by the two Ministers, and Drury offered his resignation. Trudeau, however, in a move that caused tumultuous outrage in the Commons, refused to accept...
...lines, is now a major target of government reform. Technically, dowries were outlawed under a 1961 law that proved impossible to enforce. Now the reformers are relying on social pressure. The 5 million-member Youth Congress is urging its male members to sign a pledge that they will not accept a dowry when they marry; female members are asked to have their families turn down requests for dowry payments. Plans are under way for sit-ins and picketing at ostentatious weddings where parents brag about their daughter's dowry. Sanjay Gandhi, the politically ambitious younger son of Prime Minister...
...value in the market-is proving that it too can suffer, if not a crisis, then a period of turmoil. The troubles are pallid by past standards: central banks are spending only millions, rather than billions, to defend their countries' currencies, and no exchange offices are refusing to accept tourists' foreign money. Nonetheless, some currencies are not so much floating as drowning...
Acquiring separate items that can be mixed and matched, dressed down or up, the American woman can create her own look for all hours and occasions (see box). American women will no longer accept the abrupt style changes that characterized fashion until the great midi debacle...