Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fortunately, FAS is not coming out of the deal completely empty-handed. The faculty exacted a commitment from President Derek C. Bok to be represented in future decisions affecting property development, and the Gulf site will ultimately end up in FAS's hands. Nevertheless, if we accept that Harvard's primary purpose is its academic mission, a compromise as unpalatable to the Faculty as this is still unacceptable...
...airlines." At Northwest, which paid a $650,000 fine to the FAA last month after a 1988 inspection turned up a list of maintenance problems, officials contend that the carrier has an ample cash flow to repay its debt without lowering its maintenance standards. Wall Street analysts tend to accept such views. Says Julius Maldutis, who follows the industry for Salomon Brothers: "I don't believe that any responsible management would hinder maintenance as a result of leveraged buyouts...
...emotional wanderings, M is more like us than we wish to accept. In a final, passionate attempt to synthesize her internal world with the external world she is not quite ready to believe in, she declares that she needs someone to understand her, to guide her through her mental morass. She calls out in a desperate, plaintive voice, "We all hope, looking into the eyes of another, to find an answer...
GIVEN the recent Supreme Court decisions narrowing the scope of civil rights, minority leaders agree that the gains procured by the 1960s Civil Rights Movement have been effectively set back. African Americans as well as all other minority groups in this country will have to accept the harsh reality of a new era being thrust upon them...
Still, some Brazilians do accept that the outside world has a legitimate interest in the Amazon. Jose Lutzenberger, an outspoken environmentalist, notes that the Brazilians trying to develop the rain forest are themselves outsiders to the area. "This talk of 'We can do with our land what we want' is not true," he says. "If you set your house on fire it will threaten the homes of your neighbors...