Word: assents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terms: a wage increase rising to 11% over the next four years in return for which the unions would relegate to a "study committee" their demand for the right to organize the crews of U.S.-owned ships under foreign flags. But to become effective, the deal would require the assent of three smaller maritime unions and at week's end it seemed likely that at least one of them would reject the terms-a move that would force the President to decide whether to demand an 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction against the seamen...
This may help to explain why to little data is available. But a year ago a Senior Tutor did go over the records of Soph Standing students in his House, and concluded that all but one had had unsatisfactory experience with the program. The Dean murmured polite assent to this finding and said he might be interested if more people said the same, but so far there has been no rush of data...
...danger of a bloodbath instituted by Trujillo's unproved heirs, or the counterdanger of a revolt in which a Castro might emerge triumphant. Washington sounded out members of the Organization of American States on the possibility of joint action to maintain order inside the Dominican Republic, got firm assent from key nations. As the threat of Ramfis Trujillo's reprisals grew stronger at week's end, the U.S. served notice that it wanted the era of terror ended. State Department Press Officer Lincoln White reported that "unwarranted repression" was being employed in Ciudad Trujillo "against anyone...
...just back from a visit to northern Laos, where he hailed the pro-Communist rebels as "liberators." Surprisingly, the two old enemies agreed to a three-nation commission of neutrals (Malaya, Burma and Cambodia) to supervise a cease-fire in Laos. In return for Souvanna's assent. General Phoumi. with U.S. encouragement, promised to support Souvanna's policy of "strict neutrality...
Needless to say, this is not the only moral to be drawn, and Westerners assent at the play's conclusion, simply because there is so much room for philosophic interplay...