Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will not accept anything less than favorable recommendation of our proposal," Bassi said...
...fact that without the student body Harvard is reduced to its secondary roles as a research institution, a library and an investment firm. The University offers teaching and education not as a consumer commodity but as its own primary focus. Yet those who pay to be taught and educated accept their relegation to the realm of passive recipient. The theories also obscure what has become a central tenet at most educational institutions: the experience of living and functioning in a university environment equals or surpasses the classroom in educational importance. Many students are and the rest should be directly concerned...
...just like retail stores, banks are offering a trade-off that they believe most customers will accept: more products in exchange for less personal service. Today's depositors with as little as $500 to invest will find that banks give them more possibilities than ever before. Banks now offer an array of money-management accounts and even discount stock-brokerage service. Banks have vastly improved upon old-time bankers' hours of 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. New York's Citibank boasts that 80% of its depositors use its 24-hour automatic-teller machines and that more than half...
Doctors and researchers are also struggling with the ethics of testing potential AIDS vaccines now under development in the U.S. and France. The problem: vaccines for any disease must eventually be tested on healthy humans. What if volunteers accept the vaccine, then risk exposure and come down with the disease? That would prove the vaccine ineffective but, in the case of AIDS, could prove fatal. Says Dr. Michael Cairns of the Duke Medical Center in Durham, N.C.: "You can't arbitrarily expose a group of people to a virus to see if the vaccine is protective." Moreover, the behavior...
...largest demonstrations in the Deep South since the 1960s, they joined in singing King's old anthem, We Shall Overcome. Declared Bernice King, daughter of the martyred leader, at a closing rally: "On behalf of a new generation of civil rights leaders, we graciously accept the leadership when you hand it over...