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Word: acceptance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last semester, we were able to accept both commuters and transfers," said Christopher M. Jedrey, senior tutor at Lowell House, which accepted five transfer students yesterday. "But fourteen returning students cut the number we could accept," he added...

Author: By Theodore S. Chandler, | Title: Housing Transfers Rise 50 Per Cent | 2/21/1978 | See Source »

...cash ran short, public officials asked stores to accept checks and even lOUs from their customers. For the first time in its 106-year history, the Boston Globe was unable to distribute an edition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Blizzard of the Century | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...long-standing U.S. opposition to Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, and warned that new settlements would hurt the peace effort. That move drew a sharp response from Israel's Menachem Begin, who was in Geneva attending a meeting of European Jewish leaders. Said he: "I do not accept the view that Israeli settlements are illegal and constitute an obstacle to peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Determined to Persevere | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...emerges from these characters' random encounters. What the film does produce is an unflattering portrait of Bob Dylan's ego. Almost all the characters - including the performers he elbows off-screen in the musical numbers - treat the hero with dumb-struck reverence. Grateful Indians and blacks gleefully accept his political support. Worse still, Dylan fills Renaldo and Clara with self-deifying Christ images. At least we are spared a crucifixion scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ego Trip | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...farfetched as some would imagine. As creator and moderator for a year of "The Advocate," a public television series that presents conflicting viewpoints on a different issue each show, Fisher led the late President Gamel Abdul Nasser of Egypt to admit in 1970 his willingness to accept in principle the existence of Israel. This admission sent U.S. diplomats scurrying to Cairo, and helped produce the first Sinai disengagement agreement--at least if a letter from then-Secretary of State William P. Rogers, thanking Fisher for his efforts, can be believed...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Coping With Conflict | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

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