Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Smith was contacted earlier this week by Robert Thomas, an agent of the University of Southern California, he informed Thomas that SAE would definitely not be able to accept the invitation as long as Anheuser-Busch was funding the trip...
...Take for instance the cast of royalties on Mein Kampf. They are collected each year, in the English speaking world, by the London literary agents Curtis Brown. And each year, these honest Englishmen bring the money over to the German Embassy. The canny diplomats of the Bundesrepublik refuse to accept it (as do the Argentines). Brown's therefore use it to pay the rent. Their landlords: The Jewish Charities of London...
...challenging for the title, this does not mean to accept four automatic looses to Princeton and Penn before even taking the floor against these Ivy hoop goliaths. Nor does it mean quitting eight minutes after the opening tap if you happen to fall behind early, as has been the habit of past squads...
...Brown, 37, is the Democratic Governor of California. In his first year in office, he has curbed growth in his state's burgeoning governmental employment and spending. He has admonished Californians to lower their sights, prepare to make needed sacrifices instead of slaking the urge to consume, and accept unaccustomed notions of inherent limits instead of boundless growth...
Current Situation. Although Sindona is rumored to have money stashed away in secret bank accounts, he claims that he is living on loans from friends. He apparently has hit the lecture circuit for public relations purposes; he says he does not accept fees. Besides the University of Minnesota, he has appeared at Columbia and U.C.L.A. Sindona warms to his audiences ("I enjoy being around young people because then I feel young"). He denounces the evils of socialism and expounds at length on the evolution of multinational companies into "cosmo-corporations." But he has not turned chatty about his personal affairs...