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Word: acceptance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emphasizing the commercial disadvantages of Crimson football broadcasts, Edney pointed out that this fall's five-game home schedule, by not including the Yale game, is not worth very much to a sponsor. He also complained that the University's refusal to accept a brewery as sponsor handicaps any radio station buying Stadium football rights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WBZ Official Cites "Unrealism" of H.A.A. On Radio Coverage | 10/4/1955 | See Source »

...ostensible snag was merely the selection of a third "neutral" member of the three-man regency council. Faure picked Brigadier General Si Kettani ben Hamou. Kettani declined to accept until he consulted Juin and Brigadier General Jean Lecomte, Koenig's chief of staff, and an old North African friend of Juin's. Lecomte told General Kettani to refuse Faure's appointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Shambles | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...estate would get all that was left in his specific G.A.W. fund when he was fired, quit, retired or died. At week's end, negotiations between the company and union were stalled because the company was pushing for G.A.W. and the union was steadfastly refusing to accept it. Cracked Business Agent Gerard: "It would be like equipping Arab camel drivers with life jackets in case they ever drove into a mirage that turned out to be a real lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Guaranteed Annual Mirage | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...certainly be built, but the important question is whether they can be properly staffed." In answer, it hazarded a guess that, "in a faculty numbering nearly 300 permanent members, nearly 100 on term appointments and some 500 junior members on one-year appointments, there will be found teachers to accept the challenge of staffing new Houses...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Overseers Call College Expansion Unavoidable | 10/1/1955 | See Source »

...fewer than 10,000 of the 60,000 patients in Veterans Administration neuropsychiatric hospitals could be discharged if their families or community groups would only accept them back home, said the National Association for Mental Health. If the same ratio holds in state hospitals, 100,000 patients are being kept long after recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Sep. 26, 1955 | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

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