Word: accept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sheer primordial joy suffused the face of Edward Irving Koch, who normally has the contemplative features of a Talmudic scholar. The moment passed quickly. Feigning loud dismay, Koch cried: "I want it to be longer! I want to enjoy it more! It's too early! I refuse to accept victory...
...implying the existence of some numerically fixed standard of merit, such as grades and test scores that cannot be affected by other factors. A standard of this kind would suggest, for instance, that geographical distribution and socioeconomic background cannot be used as criteria in admissions, that Harvard cannot accept a poor black applicant from Alabama over a rich white one from New York City if the latter has a numerically better academic record. In view of the inequality of opportunity still present in this country, that is a highly disturbing implication...
...flip side, Spence will require a House to accept transfers only when the current House population falls below the 87 per cent floor. Thus Mather, with its ten per cent attrition rate, need not accept any one-way transfers this fall. A master might decide to accept transfers beyond the required minimum, possibly to alter the class balance within the House, to help out an overcrowded House or for other reasons...
...South African government eased its policy in the 1970s, and allowed some blacks passports. In 1972, James C. Thomson, curator of the Nieman Fellowships, said he would refuse to accept any South Africans as Niemans if the government continued to prohibit black journalists from participating...
...American Indian Movement. For different reasons, both legal and illegal Hispanic residents find dangers in the Carter plan. Those who hold U.S. citizenship are fearful that the program would empower federal agents to harass Hispanics in general in an intensified search for those without proper papers. If Hispanic leaders accept the five-year work permit idea, insists Alberto Juarez, director of a legal aid program in East Los Angeles, "we will be lulling people into a situation where we will face massive deportations." Hispanic leaders want general amnesty for all illegal aliens-or at least the right for those...