Word: acceptance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stock up on essential supplies for the long week ahead. But do not buy any Canadian Club whiskey. The C.C. people have informed me that they hid a case of their wonderful blended whiskey somewhere in Boston. Your mission this week, should you choose to accept it, is to find that gold mine. The following clues will prove helpful...
...discussing the cost-of-living clause demand, John Shaffer, shop steward for five House dining halls, said yesterday, "We won't accept percentages--we want across-the-board raises...
...your corporations class in 2L, when your professor makes the perfectly apparent argument that you can't have corporate directors thinking about anything besides maximizing share values and that you can't worry about the fact that their company is, say, dumping napalm on the Vietnamese. You accept that, and that's the end of it. The end. Then you go off, and you practice law. Now, there's really something to be said on both sides of that question, but after 1L you just stop saying it. That's why I don't want to be a corporate lawyer...
...gets to eat scrambled eggs and who will eat Frosted Flakes. There is a philosophical ideal involved in all of this, an ideal many of the convention members seem to take seriously. The ideal is a community in which individuals don't isolate themselves from others and refuse to accept imperfect goings-on around them. Only by working closely with others on a communal level to solve the little problems can we ever hope one day to be able to solve the more profound problems that we find in our society. Harvard teaches us not to ask questions...
...synagogues and social centers. Proposed remedies include greater commitment to Israel, a higher birth rate, a stricter ban on intermarriage and campaigns against proselytizers from other faiths. But Reines, 52, doubts that any of these will work. The problem, he argues, is that American Jews simply do not accept the teachings of traditional Judaism. And without some religion, Jewry will vanish...