Word: accept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oxford college who also chairs a very popular radio quiz program. The most brilliant intellects will display a modesty bordering on absent-mindedness: someone who says he dabbles in Anglo-Saxon poetry may well turn out to be the world's greatest expert on it. If you can accept all this, and see it not merely as something which is "cute" (an expression, incidentally, which the English hate), but as a vital part of a process whereby the past and present are kept in equilibrium, you will be a long way to getting the most out of English university education...
Members of the Oxford Street Day Care Cooperative will decide tomorrow night whether to accept a new home the University has offered them...
Obviously I am not asking to resist governmental intrusion in order to encourage or accept intrusion of any other kind from any other quarter. What I am saying is that precisely to retain our capacity to choose, and to survive as we wish to survive as a private institution, Yale, and places like Yale, must recognize their natural alliances with other private institutions. Such alliances must spring from a perception that all portions of the private sector--voluntary, corporate, and educational--have a common goal, in a pluralistic society, of providing alternatives to public structures and solutions...
...without enough accurate information to maximize profits. They settle for aiming at merely "satisfactory" profits, often with unexpected results. A key weakness in the haphazard process is that solutions that worked once may be tried over and over again in situations requiring entirely different resolutions. Most economic forecasters, however, accept the traditional notion that firms seek to maximize profits. If that is not so, then the economic policy decisions that flow from their forecasts, both in and out of government, are to say the least, questionable...
...partying lasts for six weeks, and is followed by a "moratorium" on punching activity. The selections are made. "It's simply not true that they don't punch or won't accept people from a certain background--that's just not true anymore. They won't exclude anyone they like," a punchee said...