Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students who are attempting to reform the CRR last week urged House committees and the Freshman Council to boycott the CRR until the Faculty votes to accept the proposed reforms...
...financed the start of a pro-government Johannesburg daily, the Citizen, and allegations of personal abuse of the fund amounting to millions of dollars. To angry opposition members of Parliament, the judge's ouster amounted to an attempted cover-up of Pretoria's "Watergate." In protest, they refused to accept appointments to a special bipartisan investigative body. Indeed, there is intense pressure on Botha within his own party not to suppress such evidence...
...less than momentous, perhaps risible, questions. Could a figure very like Columnist Jimmy Breslin, the slob-throb voice of New York's little guy, find love and happiness with a young woman cut from the same fine cloth as Dancer Gelsey Kirkland? Can the public be persuaded to accept, as a heartwarming example of the human spirit's indomitability, her triumph over what appear to be terminal leg cramps on opening night of her first starring part in a ballet? Can another big crash-bang score by Bill Conti once again drown out a multitude of dramatic sins...
...statement approved by SASC two weeks ago SASC members said they "consider it ridiculous and pointless to deal with a committee (the ACSR) hand-picked by the administration to make only those recommendations the Corporation is willing to accept...
Despite the ambiguous status of the assistant professor at Harvard, most candidates are eager to accept a position here. "Harvard is an incredibly attractive environment, offering a superior library, intellectual climate and students," one junior faculty member in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature says. Harvard junior faculty members receive a fairly light teaching load, a sabbatical to do research for a year at half salary or six months with full pay, and an opportunity to exploit the University's astounding research resources. In theory, then, most junior faculty should be able to view their years at Harvard...