Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each of us is a member of an organized society. Each of us benefits from its existence and its order. And each of us must be ready, like Socrates, to accept the verdict of its institutions if we violate their mandate and our challenge is not vindicated...
...high standards of the office I hold." He sent a copy to President Nixon, along with a two-sentence letter of resignation. The reply from the White House, which clearly welcomed just such an outcome, was equally terse: "I have received your letter of resignation," wrote Nixon, "and I accept it, effective as of its date...
...Well, I don't think it's like that at all. Besides, you just got to accept these things. For me, gettin' shot is a chance I got to take every day, the way my neighborhood is. It's a chance you got to take...
Today the Eurodollar market has expanded into a wholesale operation on a global scale. It involves roughly 500 banks in 40 countries. The banks accept deposits (minimum: $25,000) and arrange loans (usually from $100,000 up) among one another and with their customers over a telephone and Telex network. Fed most years by continuing U.S. payments deficits, the pool of money has grown geometrically from $8 billion in 1964 to $16 billion in 1967 to $27 billion at the end of April...
...request of the Law Review, a student honorary publication, the faculty amended the Committee recommendation to increase from 15 to 20 the number of first-year students' grades to the submitted to the Review for purposes of choosing members. The Review claimed that the needed to accept more members because of the draft...