Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interviewer, he would prefer Humphrey to Kennedy. Realizing his error-many of his anti-Administration supporters would leave him if they thought he was merely playing the spoiler's role to block Kennedy-the Minnesotan later hedged his statement, then took a jab at reporters who refused to accept his backtracking. "The people who are with me who seem to be hippies are really the national press," he told an audience at Southwestern Oregon Community College in Coos...
Monro left Harvard for Miles last spring. He said in the copyrighted interview that he believes whites should not accept a job as president or dean of a Negro college. "Those jobs, and this institution, really belong in the hands of the black community...
...over-the-counter dealings after that. Securities men, meanwhile, are hopeful that the brokers will eventually be able to obtain bank loans on the securities, even though the stock certificates that bankers ordinarily demand as collateral are held by the C.C.S. Instead of the stock itself, the banks would accept C.C.S.-issued "warehouse certificates." Until some such arrangement is worked out, however, the brokerage firms will simply have to withdraw some of their certificates to use as collateral...
...they'd ask again for the real adjuster. They just couldn't believe it." Many men, and most women, also do not like the idea of reporting to a female boss. Says John Hancock's Joan Keenan: "It's difficult for a man to accept the idea of reporting to a woman at work. He does that at home, and that's enough...
Planning for the Future. Harrington in effect demands a change in human nature-and an American willingness to accept the taxes and the "well-intentioned, genteel totalitarianism" of a Government giving first priority to the "criteria of social need." He does not say exactly so, but seems to be well aware that no such large cooperative society has ever been achieved without strong coercion. The political transformation he envisions is a vast, new coalition of the Left-most likely taking over the Democratic Party-made up of the poor, both white and Negro, a "reinvigorated labor movement," and the Galbraithean...