Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overall purpose of the study groups will be, as Neustadt says, "to render educational assistance on problems from nine months to nine years away to public services." Neustadt emphasized, however, that the Institute would not accept any government contract work, and would take on problems in the study groups that interested its members. In other words, the Institute would avoid the position of acting at the government's behest...
...rate, the academic community's hand-wringing over the suspicious color of CIA money spent for national security did not seem wholly justified. There is hardly a university in the nation that does not accept-indeed depend on-hefty grants from the Defense Department. CIA itself uses dozens of scholars and university specialists as consultants. In 1951, CIA gave -directly and without masquerade-$300,000 to finance M.I.T.'s topflight Center for International Studies. Until last spring, M.I.T. continued to accept agency funds, then terminated the contract "for practical, not moral reasons...
...Notre Dame's senior class voted to give its annual Patriot of the Year award to General William Westmoreland, 52, the U.S. commander. "You have done me a great honor," Westmoreland wrote from Saigon. "But as you suspected, my schedule will not permit my attendance to accept." And then some of the Fighting Irish took the more publicized view. As soon as the winner was chosen, the student weekly Observer started potshooting: "All that can be said of the selection is that it was in the best tradition of black humor...
When they met in Littauer on Jan. 16, May and Wofford pressed the SDS leaders to define just what sort of meeting with Goldberg they would accept. A large, public meeting with him, they said, might not be the best idea; the larger the meeting, the greater the chances for its getting out of control...
...past letters, they have asked the Administration to explain its objectives in Vietnam, and state whether it would be willing to accept a political solution...