Word: accepting
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Most foreign students are a little shocked by the competitive American ethic that is exhibited in the pre-med syndrome. Gikas Hardouvelis '78, from Greece, says he never had to compete for anything before he came here, and says he finds it hard to accept competition as a way of life. Elena Granaglia '79, from Italy, says she just ignores the competition, and hopes to avoid becoming the kind of student that learns nothing but how to get good grades...
...children. They had acquired the veneer of little Russians, reticent to speak freely and openly with people we didn't know well...trust became reserved, finally, only for the family." In an interview last month in America, Schecter described this element of secrecy as "something you accept. It's not a real extreme paranoia, but it becomes an accepted element in your life. It changes you, because you become much more closed and protective. It's kind of scary." This scary alteration Schecter observed in his family's behavior ultimately reduced their stay in Moscow to only an arms-length...
...attempts to accept more students from Third World countries have been made in recent years, for instance. "Our main effort for recruiting from ethnic populations is on the American scene," Malin says, adding that "if the [admissions] committee was forced to make the choice, it would be more likely to take black Americans than black Africans." According to Malin, however, the University has been able "to have its cake and eat it too" since the admissions office has stepped up U.S. minority recruitment without cutting down the number of foreign acceptances...
Although the dean made a serious and important mistake in rejecting out of hand CHUL's recommendation and altering the assignment process, Rosovsky's reluctance to accept CHUL's other proposals is understandable. After struggling for a year and considering a variety of alternatives, the panel's recommendations, in essence reaffirming the status quo despite its present flaws, made no progress toward solving the complex housing problem. Despite the complexity of the issue, CHUL's performance provides a sad illustration of its effectiveness as an institution in dealing with matters clearly within its jurisdiction...
Through Lord Greenhill, its special envoy to Rhodesia, London has told Smith that if he would accept early black majority rule, Britain would 1) provide troops to protect whites and blacks alike during the transition period, and 2) underwrite the main financial cost of resettling Rhodesian Europeans in Britain and other Western countries. Although Smith now concedes that majority rule will have to come considerably sooner than he once envisaged ("not in my lifetime"), he still insists that an African majority government is 10 to 15 years off. That stubbornness prompted British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan to declare in exasperation...