Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James Paul called the Business School guidelines "insufficient" and said that the school is pressuring him and his wife to accept them to avoid a suit...
...even those women opposed to abortion should accept the need for some insurance providing pregnancy benefits. It is their right, if they wish, to have children if they get pregnant; but it is not their right to force other students to go into debt because they need abortions. If a woman cannot find the $150 for an abortion, how can she hope to pay the $400 for delivery? No one would argue that abortion should be a form of contraception, but there are times when it is necessary--and it seems unlikely that there would be an increase in abortions...
...Taiwanese won't accept the program without the military stuff since they aren't interested in anything else," and MIT will thus be able to get out of the deal quietly, Tokar said...
...coils of introspection frequently lead Hoagland to such downbeat conclusions. Yet, paradoxically, his essays are primers in the simple wonders of existence. "What is most shocking," he writes, "is not how casually we accept the news of an acquaintance's death, unless our noses are rubbed in it, but how casually we observed his life." That is easy to say but hard to mean, and Hoagland clearly means it. He has traveled and thought hard, usually in solitude, without allowing the veneer of his own sophistication to clog his responses. He is unembarrassed by awe and un abashedly thrilled...
...four professors have opted to accept election...