Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...risk their lives-and four were killed in the last two days in Viet Nam-and asking union members to hold down their wage increases, at a time when restraint and sacrifice are being asked of every citizen, the American people will find it hard, as I do. to accept a situation in which a tiny handful of Steel executives whose pursuit of private power and profit exceeds their sense of public responsibility can show such utter contempt for the interest of 185 million Americans...
Shaw explained that he considered the committee report "a prelude rather than a specific blueprint." He contended, though, that the University should have a definite policy on whether to accept civil defense markers and stockpiles before a request comes from civil defense authorities. Pusey said the Administration will decide on cooperating with the government when it receives a request for specific action. Harvard will not anticipate government policy, the President observed...
...offers have been made to , of whom about 350 are to accept admission. These 350 would receive a total of about roughly equal to the amount year. The 435 scholarship do not include the 90 Merit eight General Motors Scholars, scholarship winners the new class...
...states involved, only 39 accept the World Court's compulsory jurisdiction. Many of these 39, said British Delegate Lord Shawcross, "including the U.S., have attached reservations which make their acceptance, to say the least, less than fully effective...
...split-level decision, the nation's loftiest heroes got the wall-to-wall carpeting pulled out from under them. A week after the seven U.S. astronauts received tacit NASA consent to accept fully furnished, $24,000 houses as a gift from the Houston Home Builders Association, Pathfinder John Glenn showed up in Washington for what was rumored to be White House-inspired reconsideration. The result: an announcement that the astronauts will pass up the gift houses out of a somewhat belated recognition that misunderstanding of their motives "would undercut the stature of the astronauts and of the space program...