Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balanced assessment of the Ford program was offered by Bill Meis, 29, an aspiring novelist who lives with his wife and two children in Montreal. Denied conscientious-objector status, he fled in 1968. "O.K., I accept the sentiment behind the proposal," he says, "but it's a kind of humiliation, a concept that we were subversive. It's a hardship for our families. Some of them would have to go on welfare for two years while husbands served out their debts. I've had a very good life here, but there's no point in denying...
...stayed out of politics. Then the President called to ask me to go to India. As I had publicly disagreed with him on Bangladesh and had declined to endorse him in 1972, I felt that his offer was a genuine reflection of his policy interests, and one I could accept as an independent person. The wisdom of having done so becomes less certain with time, but there was a rationale at the beginning...
...third week of the dispute, schools were in session under the protection of sheriffs deputies. Miners began trickling back to work after two pleas by United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller that they accept the compromise settlement. Earlier, coal operators had voiced suspicions that the book dispute was a trumped-up excuse to strike at a time when the union was bargaining for a new contract. Miller announced that a union committee would investigate the charge and would have the power to bring disciplinary action against any U.M.W. member found in violation of the union constitution. Officials calculated that each...
Former U.S. Attorney Cecil Poole of San Francisco agrees: "It's not too important how you get the message out," he says, "as long as you don't make the practice of law look like a garage sale." Whether or not his colleagues accept that argument, the bar will probably have to learn to live with some form of legal clinic...
None of these actions were based on statute. In fact, there seem to be only two laws directly relevant to presidential papers. The Presidential Libraries Act of 1955 authorized the GSA to accept for deposit historical materials of any Chief Executive. The 1969 Tax Reform Act outlawed deductions for any official's papers donated to a library or archive...