Word: accept
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Under the new system, however, a three-month period of program planning will precede an intensive annual review session each February. The new president and his executive committee, after further consultation with outgoing officers, will either accept or reject committee plans for the following year. The executive committee then appoints committee chairmen and coordinates solicitation and dispensing of funds...
...understandable (although not particularly beneficial to socety as a whole) that professors wish to train them to perpetuate their own disciplines and ethics among students. But the large majority of undergraduates and graduate students do not end up as teachers, and the Faculty should be more ready to accept this simple fact and to adjust its academic rules accordingly. For example, why should courses on public problems, taught by associates of the Joint Center for Urban Studies or the Institute of Politics, not be considered General Education...
...exaggerated amount of power. For example, in last fall's two regular Faculty meetings, only 185 of the 700-man Faculty attended one meeting, while 175 attended the other. Therefore the Dean loses much of his support through Faculty indifference to educational matters. The Faculty is usually willing to accept what exists; it is only when the Dean introduces innovations that the opposition mounts...
With his famous other hand, Johnson signaled that the U.S. was not going to accept the North Korean action meekly. Accordingly, he called up 14,787 Air Force and Navy Reservists, mobilized 372 inactive aircraft, hinted that some ground troops might follow, and thus released hundreds of operational war planes for service in Japan and South Korea. Ironically, the Korean crisis thus gave Johnson an unsought dividend by enabling him to activate reserve units-a move he had seriously contemplated to alleviate serious shortages in Viet Nam but had rejected as too risky politically...
Bribes & Bootlegging. Kennedy's observations were based on an intensive, twelve-day tour of refugee camps and talks with hundreds of peasants and government officials. "Government jobs," said Kennedy, "are bought and paid for by people seeking a return on their investments. Police accept bribes. Officials and their wives run operations in the black market. Army vehicles are used for private purposes. Supplies disappear and show up in the bootleg stores on the street...