Word: acceptible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think the editorial might have recognized extraordinary generosity of spiriton the part of one other group of people: Charles Engelhard's family and the trustees of the Engelhard Foundation. Not many donors to Harvard, I suspect, would graciously accept such a reaction, agree to cancellation of an undertaking to name the library for their father or the person who established their foundation, and proceed with a gift of $1 million. Anthony Lewis...
...buying more military hardware." The greatest threat, he declared in an eerily prescient 1966 speech, comes from rebellious violence in poor countries. During his eleven years as president of the World Bank, McNamara's convictions have deepened, and last week, appearing at the University of Chicago to accept a $25,000 prize for promoting international understanding, the former Defense Secretary declared that "excessive military spending can reduce security rather than strengthen it." Reason: the outlays swallow resources needed to reduce global poverty...
President Bok said yesterday he had "no plans at the present time" to accept a recent challenge by Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.) to debate Harvard's investment policy on companies doing business in South Africa...
...unjustified surgery, unnecessary hospitalizations, unneeded tests and an unwillingness even to consider costs do no one any good. The time is past when the nation could accept the resultant inflation as an inevitable side effect of good health; the price is simply becoming too high...
...when he compares the cross section of a moment in history to a severed leg of lamb, "where you see the ends of the muscles, nerves, sinews and bone of one piece matching a similar ar rangement in the other." His characters "sink their teeth" into "weighty problems," accept things "lock, stock and barrel," and come to clanging conclusions like: "The old order of things was as dead as a doornail." After an hour or two of this, who could be blamed for edging away from the bar, despite Farrell's undoubted substance and seriousness, and going inside...