Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second day, Couve added a "calendar" of reform: the Six must accept Couve's ten commandments by Jan. 31. The E.E.C. Commission must be fused with the related European Atomic Energy and Goal and Steel Community commissions in a new 14-member body by April 1-and Hallstein was not one of the 14 the French had in mind. Couve told the ministers that they had until Feb. 1 to agree to let France retain its veto over their joint decisions, even though, under the 1957 Treaty of Rome, a qualified majority vote went into effect...
Oscar Handlin resigned as Winthrop Professor this Fall to accept the new Charles Warren Chair and to become director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History...
Under the old system, freshmen were interviewed by each of the Houses to which they applied. Masters were permitted to accept a certain number of the freshmen who had applied to their House as first choice. Then Houses which had few first-choice applications were permitted to "raid" the of Houses that were over-applied. Houses then took certain percentages of their second and third-choice applicants, and the rest went to a pool...
Such a contention has important implications. I accept governmental decisions--even those with which I disagree--because it is important to me to preserve the institutions which resolve disputes and protect my security, through procedures agreed to in a "social contract" or constitution. But to what extent will similar loyalties be preserved by a government which changes its procedures at will, in the interest of self-government? And would not constitutional safeguards of minority rights--the first eight amendments--be rendered meaningless by strict adherence to self-government by "the living?" Clearly, reapportionment and the other examples given pose...
...forced to accept the second option -- the Playmate caper -- as first prize. Together with his hosts, he will select the date and plan his own weekend, including an itinerary of restaurants, nightclubs, and public appearances...