Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even granting government involvement (the grant was evidently approved by President Park himself) and the risks of KCIA involvement, the grant could still have been requested and accepted if Harvard frankly faced the implications and charted a determined posture of careful independence from these influences. Unfortunately, statements on this score so far fall short of the reassuring: "it would be wrong to accept money from a government of a divided country like Korea. But this gift, coming from a private organization like the KTA, was fine" seems either uninformed or uncandid while "I don't think it is really...
Almost two-thirds of nontenured women faculty would not encourage prospective nontenured faculty with other good offers to accept jobs at Harvard, while over two-thirds of men in similar positions would do so, according to a recent survey of Harvard junior faculty...
...government, the Freshman Council acts as a rubber stamp body for the administration and performs no service for students. A prime example of the Council's ineptitude is its handling of the referendum on the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. At Wednesday night's meeting, the Council voted to accept the unclear result of the December 9th referendum as a mandate supporting token freshman representation...
...announced departure of Walter Leonard, the University's chief AA officer, will create many uncertainties as to the University's commitment to AA. Although the TFAA has repeatedly requested participation in the selection process of a new officer, Bok has merely conceded to accept "advice." Moreover, a member of the search board, Phyllis Keller, has already publicly tried to rationalize the University's inaction in indirect response to the TFAA report to OCR last spring (Harvard Gazette, May 21, 1976). The TFAA questions the sincerity of these search board members in support of a strong AA program and their commitment...
...million sale of preferred stock has rebuilt its depleted reserves, the company is likely to go on shrinking for a while. GEICO is still losing policyholders it wants to keep; some are failing to renew because they distrust the company's finances, others because they will not accept the stiff premium increases. GEICO sells homeowners' insurance as well as auto policies-and some mortgage lenders are demanding that householders switch to richer insurers as their GEICO policies expire. Counting the policies already taken over by other insurers, says Byrne, "well probably lose 1 million" of the 3 million...