Word: acceptant
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Across the nation, students at major universities have angrily occupied administration buildings and pounded on chancellors' office doors, demanding that their institutions accept their rightful responsibility and take a role in ending the United States' involvement with the Third World. Is this a scene from 1969 during the opposition to the Vietnam...
...POLITICAL FRONT: "I believe I acted too hastily," said Washington Mayor Anthony Williams of his decision to accept the resignation of David Howard, an aide who had offended some colleagues by using the term niggardly. Howard agreed to return to the administration in another, yet-to-be-announced position...
After the parade ended on Holyoke Street, Hawn entered the Hasty Pudding Theater to accept the award...
...Samaranch is hardly free from being influential. He is one of the few individuals in the world (perhaps along with Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan) who can determine the entire fate of economies with a few choice words. A man so influential and powerful cannot be accepting a $16,000 Samurai sword from Nagano or a $300,000 international peace prize from Olympic affiliates in Seoul. And he cannot do so without expecting the IOC rank-and-file to follow his example. The Barcelona gentleman should do what many have been calling on him to do: step down...
...only settlement we would accept is that they stop using the name Harvard," Connors said...