Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent Harris poll showing that 63% of the American people accept civilian nuclear energy as clean, inexpensive and safe [Aug. 18], while only 19% oppose construction of more nuclear power plants, and a mere 5% believe them to be dangerous should help to reduce the emotional content of the often heated nuclear debate...
...thing, and substance another. The Protestant Loyalists offered to let Catholics serve as chairmen of several key legislative committees, but they maintained that Catholics could not rightly lay claim to any Cabinet posts. The largely Catholic Social Democratic and Labor Party (S.D.L.P.), meanwhile, insisted that it was willing to accept nothing less than representation at the Cabinet level. Having reached this impasse less than 90 minutes after the talks began, the delegates abruptly adjourned the meeting. Even if politicians can devise some artful, face-saving compromise formula in future meetings, the chances are that extremists on one side...
...allowed to follow the Egyptian flag into the Mitla and Giddi passes. Israel wants a guarantee that the passes be demilitarized if its forces pull out. Cairo is insistent that it owns the territory-"Sinai is ours, ours, ours!" proclaims an Egyptian officer-but seems willing to bend and accept demilitarization anyway. The Israelis, many of whom no longer regard Kissinger as their friend, believe that he has not told either side all the concessions that the other side is prepared to make and has a few goodies, like an Egyptian concession on the passes, in his pocket for both...
...been badly hurt. A spreading guerrilla war has taken nearly 1,000 lives. The worldwide recession proved devastating to an economy already damaged by a decade of international sanctions. Despite his troubles, Smith, 56, a gentleman cattle farmer, said defiantly only six weeks ago: "I don't accept the principle of government based on color." Black nationalists replied that Rhodesia already had a government based on color: 85,000 of its 273,000 whites are able to vote, but only 7,500 of its 5.8 million blacks...
...cast gathered at the Leningrad Hotel for a buffet of caviar and vodka. The hostess? The completely recovered Elizabeth Taylor, who displayed a previously unexploited talent for diplomacy. Said she: "If another opportunity comes up to be in a Soviet-American coproduction, I'll be pleased to accept the proposal...