Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rhodes intended the scholarship as an institution by which a group of young men would be brought together to further the imperialist ascendancy of Great Britain, but I can't accept that commitment," he said...
Noriega later offered to send Panamanian soldiers inside Nicaragua to conduct "terrorist sabotage" against the Sandinistas, Blandon said. North answered that he had no authority to accept such an offer but would relay it to his bosses at the National Security Council...
...College, their children still do not constitute a large number. Although one may object to this special consideration, Harvard is in the end a private business which must maintain financial solvency. Since much of the money comes from alumni contributions, the College is obligated to a certain extent to accept a large proportion of legacies...
...statistics show that Asians are overrepresented in sciencerelated fields. If the Committee seeks a diverse student body and not just one filled with scientists, then it should reject those candidates that have nothing else to offer. If all caucasians were interested solely in the Classics, the Committee should not accept them all either...
Framing the debate in this way, the president could force Congress into the court of public opinion. With a two-thirds majority, Congress could override his veto and pass the original appropriations bill, which would appear to the public as sanctioning wasteful spending. Or they could accept his veto and pass the same bill without those expenditures, as the president had proposed...