Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continue to bomb the North, most people would say that we were crazy. When the other side makes exactly the same proposition in reverse, it is hard for me to understand why there are people who say, That sounds like a good proposition. Why don't you accept...
Smale's problems began in the summer of 1966, when he traveled to Russia under his grant to accept the Fields Award, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of mathematics. Once in Moscow, Smale climed the steps of the University there and denounced the American position in Vietnam, Soviet maltreatment of intellectuals, and Soviet foreign policy, paticularly in respect to the Hungarian uprising...
...also received letters in support of Smale from M.I.T., Columbia, Brandeis, and Berkeley, and fifty faculty members of the University of Pennsylvania signed a statement, in which they said they would refuse to accept any from the NSF until the Smale rsy is settled favorably
This, it seems, is also official Washington's policy since the President would otherwise be willing to accept the risk of temporary casualties in the South with the knowledge that negotiations would bring about an eventual cease-fire...
...Elder rejected the pay increase outright. They offered two new proposals on the junior-senior rate differential, both of which meant that the teaching fellows might lose as much as they would gain. Only with respect to work load measurement were the deans conciliatory, and even there they would accept only adjustments within the old system...