Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford Motor Company has granted $25,000 to Radcliffe College and will accept eight Radcliffe students for summer internships in an effort to attract women to careers in science and technology...
Another complaint is that the student association will become a haven for pre-law Government majors seeking to fatten their resumes at any price. Even if you accept the underlying assumption that people here are that intrinsically evil, the worst that can result is still better than the current status quo. The institutional link would still exist, ready to be taken seriously when conditions warranted it. In addition, I reject the cynicism inherent in this objection. I know that some members of any organization privately see it only as a stepping-stone, but I would wager that...
Instead of encouraging students to engage actively in achieving a perception of reality out of their own experience, and to decide what intellectual experiences will prepare them for that reality, the Core will reward students who passively accept the status quo. And instead of allowing students to deal personally with accelerating change, and to seek out and shape desirable futures, the Core is structured to meet the liberal establishment's notion that students are raw resources that must first be molded to certain specifications before being permitted to fully interact with society...
...membership 1,500), there are 100 abroad. While the communes are secular, there is a heavy emphasis on community. The communards get room, board and a stipend, but their main reward is in self-respect. A sign in the Orléans commune reads: "We will never agree to accept our subsistence on any basis other than our own work...
...also helps to have help in dealing with reluctant editors. Do not call Meredith, however, or most other top agents. "We won't accept a writer who does only magazines unless we think he'll do a book some day," he says. Explains Agent Henry Morrison: "With a book, you work for two or three days for 10% of a $50,000 sale. With a magazine, you work two days for 10% of a $3,000 sale...