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Word: acceptable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suppose Dean Allison were to accept all 30 calls and talk to each person for five minutes. 250 minutes translates into nearly four hours of the working day, and that apart from another 10 hours of daily meetings, hours spent teaching, and perhaps even time to read the mail and think. The question of allocating 14 hours of a working day among these various claims is not easy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Access at JFK School | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...have recognized that this would be grossly inflationary-and that leaders of business and labor would post higher prices and press for steeper wages just to keep up. Robert Strauss, who was Carter's anti-inflation czar until last week, strong-armed coal mine operators last March to accept a highly inflationary contract (39% increases over three years). Carter might have recognized what would happen: every other union leader, just to prove his manhood and keep his job, would strive to equal or top that figure. Blumenthal, Strauss and Carter himself repeatedly, if sometimes vainly, cajoled the Federal Reserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: What Might Have Been | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

Students who are attempting to push through the reforms yesterday urged House committees and the Freshman Council to boycott the CRR until the full Faculty votes to accept proposed reforms of the committee...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: CRR Reforms May Fail In Faculty | 11/4/1978 | See Source »

...recreate reality as it is but as the filmmaker sees it, that the film director should use every cinematic resource to present his vision visually and aurally to to the viewer in such a way that the viewer has no choice but to experience it emotionally. If you accept this line, Despair, with its struggle between life and art, real reality and film reality, could be the quintessential film, almost an apotheosis of cinematic form. Well...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Imperfect Despair | 11/1/1978 | See Source »

Poor says she thinks a network will develop as more women graduates of business schools come to accept a responsibility on their part to provide guidance to other women in their early years with large firms. An encouraging sign, she adds, was the result of a survey the WSA conducted by mail this fall among 1200 HBS alumnae. All of the 300 women who responded said they are interested in helping HBS women to launch their careers...

Author: By Joan Feigenbaum, | Title: The 'New Girl Network' | 11/1/1978 | See Source »

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