Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...during the past decade the situation has changed completely. Applications have increased threefold and, even worse, a large percentage of candidates are qualified to do the work here--a much larger number than the College could ever accept with existing facilities. Just last month the Admissions Office revealed that more applicants were refused than accepted for the Class of 1959. It was the first time in Harvard's history this has happened...
Next day, in pique, Rome's biggest moneymen went on strike against tax reforms by closing the stock exchanges. An official of the Finance Ministry explained sympathetically, "Italians cannot be made to accept the idea of sending a man to jail for failure to pay taxes...
...always tactful man, offered to increase Britain's economic and military aid if only Jordan would sign. When he tried to bulldoze Jordan's Premier, the Premier resigned (TIME, Dec. 26). Jordan's young, Harrow-educated King Hussein quickly appointed a new government to accept Templer's proposals, but already agitators were stirring. Ambitious King Saud of Saudi Arabia maintains scores of agents provacateurs to promote his influence in Jordan; Communists, though small in number, know how to guide mobs...
...reason why many victims of emotional illness "give up" and accept full-time hospitalization is their desire to escape from the world. Being shut away may make this worse instead of better. So Dr. Cameron also uses the day hospital as a weaning station or halfway house for patients who have been in the Allan Institute's full-time hospital and need help in readjusting to the world at large. For patients who might find the transition from the day hospital to life "on the outside" too abrupt, the Allan Institute has just added a "three-quarter-way house...
Management and employees are a little proud of the fact that G.M. was the first automaker to accept the labor-dispute umpire system (in 1940), first to hitch wages to the cost-of-living index, first to link wage increases to productivity. Last year G.M. lost an average (nationwide) of only three minutes in labor troubles for each wage earner. Today's happier version of the sitdown in Flint occurs when local U.A.W. leaders, G.M. brass and civic bigwigs sit down at a luncheon meeting to plot the Community Chest campaign...