Word: acceptability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Spence said in an interview last night thatit was not dissatisfaction with Harvard that ledhim to accept the Stanford post. "I wouldn'tcharacterize myself as restless," Spence said...
Likud consistently stalled negotiations over the identity of the Palestinian interlocutors it would find acceptable, rejecting anyone even remotely connected with the P.L.O. To lure the Palestinians to the table, Baker demanded that Israel agree to accept at least one Palestinian deported from the territories as well as a resident of the West Bank with an office or second home in East Jerusalem. These finely honed definitions were acceptable to Labor, but Likud hard-liners turned them down as an attempt to maneuver Israel into direct talks with the P.L.O...
...Traverse City, Mich., for example, 166 United Auto Workers employees of Burwood Products were locked out in December 1988 after eleven months of contract negotiations. Two months later, when the union workers finally decided to accept a 21% pay cut, they were told that they were no longer needed. Burwood, a manufacturer of clocks and other wall accessories, had replaced its union employees, generally with young workers who had been earning the minimum wage. Says ex-employee Sharon Newberry, who is still out of work: "They were just looking for a way to get rid of the union...
...sort of benediction. Or perhaps just a simple acknowledgment. "I would first like to thank you, the listener, for saving my life," he says after the music's over. "And I would like you to accept these notes, these true feelings, in peace...
Congressman Ralph Regula of Ohio recently proposed an alternative: returning the city to Maryland, which donated the land 199 years ago. That idea got scant attention until Governor William Donald Schaefer surprised everyone by saying he would accept "retrocession." But black leaders such as Jesse Jackson have denounced the proposal, Schaefer has backed away, and congressional insiders say forget it. Thus, Washington is likely to remain what statehooders call the last colony for the foreseeable future...