Word: acceptance
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...Button account. (The name Belly Button, Hakim said, was the result of a joke about North. He did not elaborate.) Hakim told the congressional committees that the $200,000 was a "death benefit" for North's wife and four children. Knowing that U.S. officials are forbidden by law to accept outside contributions, Hakim says he did not inform North of the account...
Just before leaving Washington for this week's Venice summit for leaders of the major industrial nations, the President said he had accepted with "great reluctance and regret" the resignation of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, 59, effective in August at the end of his second four-year term. His successor, and thus the new Mr. Dollar, will be Alan Greenspan, 61, a highly regarded private economist (and longtime member of TIME's Board of Economists) who served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Ford Administration. Said Greenspan last week, after revealing that it took...
...tracked down by the White House switchboard, Greenspan was in his Manhattan doctor's office and unreachable for 20 minutes. Commented Reagan, who has seen all too many physicians during his two terms: "There's no telling what they're doing to that man." Eventually Greenspan emerged. Would he accept the job? The immediate answer...
...Hormats' reasoning: Volcker's commanding manner and banker's jargon may have been off-putting to Reagan. Greenspan, on the other hand, has a gift for rendering economic concepts in the kind of uncomplicated language beloved by the folksy President. Greenspan may try to coax Reagan, for example, to accept a tax increase in the fight to cut the federal budget deficit...
Professor of Romance Languages Jean Marie Apostolides came to Harvard from Stanford University six years ago as an asscoiate professor. Apostolides received tenure two years later, but this year he announced he will return to Stanford to accept a lifetime post and possibly the chairmanship of that school's French and Italian Department. Apostolides's departure leaves the department without a scholar of French literature who is capable of placing literary texts in a cultural context...