Word: accept
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...firing of 6,000 tactical nuclear warheads, which the U.S. has placed in Europe for NATO defense. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and his West German, Italian, and Turkish counterparts also endorsed a British proposal that the Atlantic Alliance must be prepared to "escalate its nuclear response rather than accept defeat in a European...
...committee setup has caused complaint on two grounds. First, it has been said that the self-perpetuating nature of the group has made it more cliqueish than before and more prone to accept the applications of other old Loeb hands. If a director has put on a play in the Loeb Experimental Theatre, someone on the committee, or one of the Faculty advisers who sit with them is likely to have seen it. If he has acted in Loeb shows and directed elsewhere, his Loeb friends will probably have seen his shows. But if he has no connections...
...character. The change is largely the result of actions taken by the newly-appointed Massachusetts' unique Imbalance Act, giving it the power to withhold tax funds from any city with racially imbalanced schools (schools with more than 50 per cent Negro enrollment), the State Board has refused to accept Boston's own corrective plans. They wee clearly designed to get around the question of busing and, for that matter, the question of de facto segregation. Earlier this month, despite confident School Committee predictions to the contrary, the Board invoked the Act against Boston...
Eisenstadt claims to be a moderate in racial matters, and his sincerity will be tested in the next few weeks. It is incumbent upon the School Committee now to accept more than a busing plan if it is to eliminate racial imbalance. It must also work out a re-drawing of Boston's school district lines and a plan for building new schools, whenever possible, where white and Negro neighborhoods meet...
These actions should involve the School Committee, for the first time, in the process of creating integrated schools. Mrs. Hicks has been dead set in her opposition to that process and her defense of the neighborhood school. If Eisenstadt and the majority of the committee accept a strong imbalance plan, as they seem ready to do, it will be the beginning of a long awaited showdown...