Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford was especially alarmed that the U.S. would lose leverage in the Cyprus crisis if aid to Turkey was halted. He sent staffers to Capitol Hill where they persuaded House-Senate conferees to eliminate the objectionable amendments from the resolution. Now the Senate must decide whether to accept the revised measure...
...secretariat monitors the worldwide energy situation. The secretary-general is a onetime minister in Algeria's National Liberation Front, Abderrahman Khene, 44. He says that times have changed since the days when the oil exporters were so unsophisticated and divided that they had little choice but to accept what the oil companies told them. "There is a new generation in the oil countries," insists Khene. "They know about world commerce, understand world affairs...
...made no effort to sell it. My agent has been told not to contact me about it at all until he has a very impressive offer he thinks I'll accept...
They had immersed themselves in their European experience, but in their role of rescuers they could not, least of all in France, become a part of the European culture. They remained always "Les Americans." They had been Europe at a time when it was scarcely possible to accept it as a superior civilization. Instead of seeing the Paris of Henry James they saw a city where there were few literary and artistic geniuses, ordinary decent hard-up people, cafes and brothels...
...Rosovsky says he tried to persuade the committee's two near appointments to accept appointments in Afro alone and that they both refused. He says that because Afro-American Studies is a new and interdisciplinary field, it would have a hard time attracting people trained in the traditional disciplines if it could not offer joint posts...