Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...percentage of students receiving "summacum laude" or "magna cum laude" with highest honors degrees was 6.9 in the Natural Sciences, 3.6 in the Humanities, and 1.3 in the Social Sciences. "Magna cum laude" with highest honors is awarded when a Department recommends highest honors, but the Faculty does not accept the recommendation...
...costly guerrilla warfare against the British would lay down their arms and forswear Communism, they would get a full pardon. Those unwilling to give up Communism got the offer of free passage with their families to Red China. Rahman gave the rebels until year's end to accept his "final" offer...
Still stronger protests came from Venezuela and Canada, which export oil to the U.S. Canada's Finance Minister Donald Fleming angrily declared: "The Canadian government cannot accept the view that there is any justification for U.S. limitations on oil coming from Canada on either economic or defense grounds...
...frustrations on his return to work. "Lots of men feel that being sent to college is like being told they're going to be vice president," says one executive. "When it doesn't happen to them, they're disappointed." Others sulk if management does not readily accept their new ideas. Moreover, some companies suspect that the popularity of executive training, especially at universities, does not grow from corporate need at all, but is merely a long-delayed reaction to the idea that the average businessman is just an uncultured boob...
Profit Sharing. To clean up the bitter memories and the vast destruction left by Allied bombers, the government named Engineer-Lawyer Pierre Lefaucheux as boss. He refused to accept state subsidies. "If we do," said Lefaucheux, "the politicians will be telling us how to make door handles." Instead, he floated bond issues on the private market, got loans from U.S. and Swiss banks, used Marshall Plan money to buy machine tools and presses in the U.S. From the rubble rose some of the most highly automated factories in Europe. Renault also became a model of enlightened management...