Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans we can only begin to imagine how the Chinese have suffered from being on the receiving end of modernization rather than the giving end. It has been hard for them to take, because under their traditional code there should be reciprocity between people, one should not accept gifts without paying them back. For China to be always receiving from the West not only hurts national pride. Being on the receiving end with no chance of repaying the favors of missionaries, for example, also hurts personal self-respect...
Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, explained in an article in the (see page three), that "subviously must remain a relative the Dean [Monro] has at least of how many letters he will he receives very few, he may well accept them all; if, on the other receives a great many, it will be necessary for him to dis-high proportion in order that a distribution may be achieved...
...Your letter will be a basis for assignment if it shows a "substantial reason" for your choice. "Substantial" obviously must remain a relative term until the Dean has at least some idea of how many letters he will receive. If he receives very few, he may well accept them all; if, on the other hand, he receives a great many, it will obviously be necessary for him to disregard a high proportion in order that the desired distribution may be achieved...
...news. "Ghana's burden of taxation is the highest in Africa," he said, announcing a wide range of tax cuts on everything from basic foods to income. To spur the private enterprise that Nkrumah had always shunned, Ankrah pledged that private companies would no longer be forced to accept government "participation...
...they do," complains one. "We want Perón," says another. "He's the only one who can save us." Then the talk breaks off. A white automobile drives up. A slender, sexy platinum blonde steps out, pausing in her swift walk to the door only to accept a bunch of flowers. "When will the general return?" asks a woman, tearfully. "Soon," replies Isabel Perón, 35. "Soon he will be in Buenos Aires...