Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there any way to avoid the beehive model? Perhaps. We must ask the individual to accept certain kinds of responsibility, and we must create the institutional framework in which individual responsibility is feasible. Traditionally, we have spent enormous energy exhorting the individual to act responsibly, and very little energy designing the kind of society in which he can act responsibly...
After an hour and a half of questioning on ROTC, President Pusey refused to admit, much less accept, that there could be any valid rationale for keeping ROTC which was any different from his belief that the University should cooperate fully with the military. The liberal "civil liberties" rationale, even if it was the reason for the Faculty's retention of ROTC, could not be the basis of a Corporation-negotiated contract with the Defense Department. This was his and the Corporation...
...PRESIDENT'S intransigence on ROTC--his inability to accept another viewpoint--shook the liberals' faith in his ability to govern the University in what they considered a satisfactory manner. He was questioned by liberal Faculty members on whether the University's investment policy was too conservative; and later on whether it didn't in fact serve the interests of State Street Bank...
Neither Israel nor the Arabs could be expected to accept such proposals completely. Israel, moreover, maintains that any settlement can come about only as the result of face-to-face agreement with Arab negotiators. On this point, the Arabs are reluctant, partly because such formal talks would imply full Arab recognition of Israel...
...government announced that the "people of Biafra look forward with interest to a visit by the British Prime Minister." Yet a meeting between the two leaders is complicated. Wilson can scarcely visit Ojukwu in Biafra and thereby award tacit British recognition to the rebel government. Ojukwu is unlikely to accept alternative talks aboard a British warship such as Wilson and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith held last year...