Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consider cases of students who were charged with disrupting the University by participating in political demonstrations. Just as the letters were mailed, students who have been attempting for two years to reform the CRR announced that their efforts may fail because the Faculty Council refused to accept two crucial reforms that would create an autonomous appeals board to the CRR and bar the use of hearsay evidence. In light of the Faculty Council's position, former student CRR members who have been instrumental in the reform efforts urged House committees and the Freshman Council to refuse to nominate students...
...voting overwhelmingly to boycott the CRR. Although the freshman class has voted not to boycott the CRR, most Houses have decided to continue the upperclass boycott. We applaud the Houses' action, and urge the remaining House to follow suit, sending a message to the Faculty that it must accept the entire set of reform proposals before students can begin to acknowledge the legitimacy...
Some former student members of the CRR who are attempting to reform the committee have urged students to boycott the CRR until the full Faculty votes to accept reforms barring hearsay evidence, creating an appeals board, and prohibiting legal counsel in hearings...
...three workers will support one retiree as opposed to the six that now support each senior citizen. There is no doubt that the social security system will have to undergo a major revamping in the upcoming years unless the next generation of the labor force is willing to accept an inordinate increase in social security taxation...
Sollas apparently decided to strike back by playing on Smith Woodward's credulity; he showed a tendency to accept purported new scientific findings as fact before they were rigorously proved. The ploy worked. Shortly after the planted Piltdown remains were found, Smith Woodward enthusiastically staked his reputation on the authenticity of the find. In fact, in a painting that still hangs in the Geological Society's London headquarters, Smith Woodward is one of several eminent scientists shown intensively examining the supposedly precious skull. What is more, he is pictured right next to its "discoverer," an amateur fossil hunter...