Word: accepting
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...separation of the capitalist system of production, which the group thoroughly endorses, from the liberal theory of politics and economics--a theory which postulates absolute freedom and the pursuit of each individual "unit's" self-interest. In America no legitimate conservative theory has historically been able to accept one without the other. But Bell, particularly, locates the nation's present malaise--lack of faith in government, a sense of social purposelessness and even economic crisis--in a contradiction between the self-suppression of the individual in efficient work and the "hedonism" which characterizes leisure time and the consumption realm...
...that won't happen, but I can say the mountain is laboring. It's as easy to say that it will bring forth a rhinoceros as a mouse. But whether the faculty will accept a rhinoceros is another question...
From his mobile headquarters in southern Angola's arid wastelands, UNITA Leader Jonas Savimbi sent out a recorded message of defiance. "We are to continue our struggle," said Savimbi, "because we cannot accept a minority regime imposed on our people by Cuban troops and Russian tanks." Aided by hidden arms caches, Savimbi's guerrillas last week ambushed several Soviet trucks and troop carriers. With seemingly solid support from the 2 million-strong southern Ovimbundu tribe (out of a total Angolan population estimated to be 5.5 million), Savimbi has the potential to thwart M.P.L.A. control over nearly half...
...Intelligence," which he claims is a synonym for Hinduism's pantheistic deity. Brooks Alexander, a former TM meditator turned evangelist with the Berkeley group, explains that TM novices are not indoctrinated outright in Hinduism, as they might be in Judaism or Christianity. Rather, they are gradually conditioned to accept a Hindu world view, after which many move into a deeper involvement through meditation. Meanwhile, two prominent Protestants in Iowa, where the movement's Maharishi International University is located, have argued in the liberal Christian Century that TM is too religious to be taught in public schools...
Last January the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, and Interior Secretary Thomas S. Kleppe announced that leasing of the land may be resumed by mid-1977-in an entirely new way. Instead of granting leases on the traditional first-come, first-served basis, Kleppe will accept competitive bids. Speculators will be discouraged by a requirement that winning bidders develop their land "diligently...