Word: acceptance
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...representatives on the Committee on College Life. In the nature of the case, the 350th committee members took the lead where a vacuum existed. I am grateful to the members for all the time spent through the spring and summer to plan these events. I hope you will accept and enjoy the festivities in the spirit in which they are offered. A.C. Epps Co-Chairman of the 350th Committee Dean of Students
House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) called the Senate bill "better than nothing" and said the House might accept it to "get a foot in the door...
...Washington, Aquino flew to New York City, where she met with business leaders in an effort to spur new investment in the Philippines and delivered an address in the TIME Distinguished Speakers series. At week's end she went to Boston to give a speech at Harvard and accept an honorary degree from Boston University, then visited her former home in suburban Newton, Mass., where she and her husband lived in exile for three years. She was scheduled to address the United Nations on Monday...
...bishop, Augustine was still hoping to use reason to win over the maverick sects that were disrupting Christendom. But by A.D. 400 he was turning to the state to enforce doctrinal conformity. St. Jerome, the translator of the Latin Bible, wrote approvingly, "Catholics revere you and accept you as the second founder of the ancient faith, and -- which is a mark of greater fame -- all the heretics hate you." Indeed, one band of them almost managed to assassinate the troublesome bishop. Augustine's reliance on the state began a millennium of alliances between cross and crown, officially repudiated by Catholicism...
...seems willing to do even that would be a trade of the reporter for Gennadi Zakharov, the Soviet U.N. employee whose arrest for espionage in New York City triggered the frame-up of Daniloff in Moscow a week $ later. And the Reagan Administration has sworn never to accept a straight swap of a real spy for an innocent American...