Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge is caught in a desperate housing shortage, for which Harvard and M.I.T. must accept some blame. Increasing numbers of graduate students, faculty members, and others tied to the universities are entering the City and flooding its housing market. They are willing to pay higher rents to get the available apartments in the area, and their rents force up rents in general. According to Mayor Daniel J. Hayes Jr., temporary residents force 1000 permanent Cambridge families to move elsewhere each year. This malignant situation is even more critical when coupled with the proposed Inner Belt's threat to displace...
Though he has defended controversial figures who are publicly distasteful, Williams believes that he succeeded in avoiding any imputation of guilt. "People have come to accept me as representing all sorts of ideologies. Of course it has not always been that way, but after seeing me defend both Communists and right wingers, people can understand that it is not a matter of mutual beliefs between client and advocator," he says...
...grounds: that such a debate would not advance the purposes of the Kennedy Institute; that the prospect of a debate would not allow McNamara to be as informal in his meetings with the students as otherwise; and that a debate would establish a bad precedent, making others reluctant to accept invitations from that Institute...
...page article in Pravda, Lenin defended the former minister in Kerensky's Cabinet, and vouched for his revolutionary purity. Sorokin was immediately released, brought to Moscow, and offered a government position which he did not accept...
Members of the School Committee disagree themselves about retaining the rejection power. Committeeman Francis H. Duehay moved on Tuesday to strike the words in the agreement which give this power to the Committee. Duehay appears to be supported by the two other committeemen who originally voted with him to accept Carmichael...