Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasions, a person who was voted a degree but died before it was conferred was indirectly honored at Commencement when the President of the University announced that he would have gotten a degree had he been alive to accept...
Northeastern University students may stage a strike if NU president Asa S. Knowles does not accept a list of 13 student demands by Thursday...
...coalition of Northeastern students who call themselves the Students Concerned Committee (SCC) presented the demands to Knowles' office last Friday, and said they would give Knowles one week to accept or reject all the demands before the SCC called for general student action...
...this happen.' " Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee believes that youthful Jewish protest against social inequity is a valid, idealistic continuation of the "prophetic rebellion" that began in 7th century Israel. He may be right, but not many parents are finding it easy to accept the idea that their son the revolutionary is in the ideological line of Hosea, Isaiah and Jeremiah...
Thus, Britain had little choice but to accept a lesser role in international finance. "The alternative might have been chaos," said Sir Leslie O'Brien, the governor of the Bank of England. "Our performance since devaluation has been disappointing, but I believe we will get it right. We have got to get it right...