Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scholarship offers have been made to 435 candidates, of whom about 350 are expected to accept membership in next year's freshman class. These 350 will receive a total of approximately $440,000, roughly equal to the amount awarded last year. Included in the class: 90 Merit winners...
HONESTUS: No. The labor costs per ton of steel would remain the same as before. The wage increase would be what is called "noninflationary." CONFUSA: Why doesn't everybody accept productivity as a guide for wage increases and stop all the arguing? HONESTUS: That, in effect, is what the President and his Council of Economic Advisers are advocating. But in practice, the yardstick is not so easy to apply. You can't just take that average figure for national productivity growth over the past half-century and apply it to every situation-changes in productivity vary greatly from...
...which last year cost $1 billion alone to maintain the mountain of surplus foods. Freeman would solve the problem by setting up the most elaborate system of acreage and production controls in U.S. history-and cut farmers off from almost all forms of Government aid if they did not accept those controls. The Farm Bureau favors fewer aids and fewer controls-and it views Freeman's all-or-nothing alternative as naked coercion...
...reciprocity with the U.S. in the election of 1911 ("No truck nor trade with the Yankees!") have more fundamental uncertainties clouded Canada's future-including the vital questions raised by Britain's move to throw in its lot with Europe, a thorny debate over whether Canada should accept U.S. nuclear arms, and the continuing Canadian quandary over the pervasive commercial and cultural influence of the U.S. At home, a basic economic imbalance has slowed Canada's growth rate to less than 1%. while chronic unemployment has averaged 6.8% of the labor force since...
...married a Mussolini, sent his regrets; Entertainment Minister Alberto Folchi, aware that Sophia is living in sin with Producer Carlo Ponti (since bigamy charges brought against Ponti forced them to disavow their 1957 marriage early this year), developed a diplomatic cold. Finally, 1961's best actress had to accept her Oscar at a small reception in her own apartment. "I didn't expect a state reception," said she, "but I had hoped to be honored as an Italian receiving a high international prize...