Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Initially, only a handful of Moscow's biggest stores will accept the cards, many of which will go to Soviet citizens who work or travel abroad and to foreigners living in the country. Unlike Westerners, who can stretch out their payments, most Soviets will have to pay in full within 30 days...
...more than nine hours of talks with Shultz, Shamir stubbornly stuck to his position that he will never exchange territory for peace. But with some reluctance the Prime Minister did agree to an international conference, provided that it is purely ceremonial, a condition the Arabs may find difficult to accept. The Arabs, in the meantime, were creating their own complications. The angry Palestinians who have led the uprising in the occupied territories have not only heeded the Palestine Liberation Organization and refused to meet with Shultz, but also now balk at being made part of a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation...
...Faculty Council "didn't accept the increase, I would have serious questions about their views of the [Undergraduate] Council," Cooper said...
...still they persist, counting fully 10 percent of all Harvard undergraduates among their members. And that doesn't begin to include the large number of women who regularly attend their social functions, nor the large number of men who accept their punching invitations and make their best effort to become a member. The University has made its formal rebuke of the clubs, denying them status as official student organizations in 1984; what has been lacking is an equally strong severing of ties with the clubs by us, the student body...
...residential houses cannot accommodate extra students, so Harvard has had to find new ways of increasing the student body without upping the residential population. And the solution has been to accept more transfer students, deny them guaranteed college housing and ask them to affiliate with Dudley House. The number of transfer students has risen dramatically from a few dozen 10 years ago to more than 100, and these late-comers to Harvard now make up more than half of Dudley's undergraduate population...