Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this time, the Shady Hill neighborhood appeared to be willing to accept the idea of having this much housing on the site; at any rate, little opposition was voiced when word leaked about Harvard's plans and when, in 1967, the Dunlop Committee on Recruitment and Retention of the Faculty endorsed the idea...
...sentiment of the meeting was clear on two points: most of those present were willing to accept some housing on Shady Hill, but aimost none wanted to see as much as 300 units there. "We should realize that the Sachs Estate has stayed empty for about as long as it's going to in a city like Cambridge which is so short of land," one man said, while another commented, "I think 300 units is out of sight as far as mobs of people are concerned...
While the Norton Woods Neighborhood Association seems ready to accept some development- -but less than 300 units-on Shady Hill, two other factions are at least potentially ready to form in the area...
University officials say they are hopeful that a plan can be developed which will satisfy most of the neighbors who now say they'll accept 150 units, but no more, on the lot. Harvard is not now planning, however, any compromise on the number of units. "I think the real compromise has already been made-between 500 and 150," Gruson says...
Help from Raquel. It would please Steinberg if the U.S. financial community would also accept him as the sobersided entrepreneur that he believes himself to be. He started his company with $25,000 borrowed from his father, bought IBM computers and leased them to users at rates below IBM's own rental charges. He could undercut IBM's prices because he was willing to risk depreciating the computers over eight instead of four years, gambling successfully on a longer useful life of the equipment. From this base he moved into related fields, buying a container-leasing company...