Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coffman's bid of $2 million plus at least $5.6 million in relocation costs for the MTA is more than $2 million higher than Harvard's $5,010,000 bid. However, the MTA Board is not bound to accept the highest bid. Many sources feel that Coffman's high bid will not be accepted since the MTA cannot be sure that his development plans are fully responsible...
Those of us who can look back sincerely and candidly can accept the fact that we were wrong. We can see that men in power may not be as educated sophisticated, or steeped in political theory. But they may have facts, information, and background that we don't have. They have advisors whose life work it has been to know other countries and their rulers, and to assay and understand their intentions beter then...
...haughty, patronizing tone of the message, offering to meet the Soviets only "on the basis of full equality," and repeating the old demands for a one-way compromise, would make it tough for Russia to accept. Even in the event of a meeting, said one Hong Kong expert, "we can expect little but a verbal agreement which will soon break down...
...groups have the same goal of unity, each proposes a separate path. Nasser believes in centralized, authoritarian control. The Baath Party favors "collective leadership" and a democratic parliamentary government. As the talks proceeded, Syria's Deputy Premier Nihad El-Kassem reportedly forced the Baathists in his delegation to accept the Nasserite proposals on a threat of resigning from office...
Abby Mann was born Abraham Goodman, the son of a Pittsburgh jeweler. At 36, he has all the work he cares to accept, since he has decided not to price himself out of the market by asking for more than $250,000 an adaptation -with a nibble or two at the gross. He has succeeded in his one-man crusade for screenwriter independence, at least for himself if not yet for others. Important actors like Spencer Tracy have threatened to quit if a word of an Abby Mann script is changed...