Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When biotechnology first burst onto the national scene in the late 1970s, Harvard underwent a series of wrenching crises to thrash out its policy toward industry. President Bok's plan to accept stock in a professor's biotech company was rejected by the Faculty, while University Professor Walter Gilbert had to resign his post in order to pursue his private business, Biogen. Out of this period came the detailed faculty research policy that still rules today...
...plan, offered by Obando y Bravo on Thursday, called on the contras to accept a cease-fire in exchange for four major concessions by the Sandinistas, including a total amnesty for all political prisoners and full freedom of the press...
Unfortunately for Robertson, as the campaign wears on, he will have to seriously address the issues and at some point, the voters will no longer accept his inflamatory and disbased statements, like those made last week about Soviet missiles in Cuba. Eventually, spiritual power alone will not be satisfactory, and he will need some real political strength...
...trained to do. I'm not training soldiers to do what we should be doing." Like his men, Nimrod feels the stress of trying to obey his superiors. "As part of an explicit policy, I explicitly order my men to beat people, to beat them hard," he says. "I accept it because if we don't beat them, we will have to shoot them. But I myself can't beat them. For the first time in my life I give an order, and then I turn my back so I won't see it done." What the army is doing...
Many Britons seem prepared to accept that British manners, a tradition no less dear than the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, are in decline. What roils some Brits is that Americans are giving the advice. Harrumphed a commentator in the Daily Mail: "Surely it is the depth of bureaucratic rudeness to imply there is not a single native of these shores capable of inculcating patience and good manners...