Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lawrence Eagleburger, 46, to Yugoslavia. This would be a surprise appointment, since Eagleburger, an old Balkan hand, is better known as the right hand of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. It was thought the Carter team would not accept a close Kissinger associate. But Eagleburger qualified (he coolly coordinated U.S. aid after Yugoslavia's 1963 earthquake, earning the nickname "Larry of Macedonia"), and Kissinger delivered a personal plea for Eagleburger's appointment to his successor, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance...
Despite the austerity of his lifestyle, Prime Minister Desai is not one of the sadhu-Indian holy men who believe that it is enough to be and not to do. A shrewd political activist, he argues that "things should be done for their own sake. I accept that I will never understand reality, so I concentrate on action, dharma [duty] and commitment." Last week, at his government bungalow in New Delhi, he outlined his views of India's future in an interview with TIME Correspondents Lawrence Malkin and William Stewart. Excerpts...
...agree with his right to break confidences or to reveal sources he promised not to reveal. He's not going to behave that way in work he does for us, and we're not going to print anything got that way." Scheer says: "I accept the rules, I accept the restraints." He does not think he has been co-opted, even if the Times job did enable him at the age of 40 to buy the first real bed he has ever owned. He happily finds himself, and old colleagues from his radical and poor days like John...
...order to accept the position at Harvard, Whiteman, a Southern Cheyenne Indian from Oklahoma, is taking a six-month leave of absence from the University of Montana in Missoula...
...administration has refused to accept its responsibility toward women and minorities in the Harvard community. Instead of taking the affirmative steps necessary to counteract a tradition which does not cater to our needs and interests, Harvard has maintained the unrealistically ideal assumption that every interest group is on equal social and financial footing here...