Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Desperately, New York officials considered last-ditch, long-shot proposals to escape default. They debated radical reductions in spending even to the point of cutting all salaries by as much as 25%. They weighed asking the city's 14,000 suppliers to accept 800 on the dollar for unpaid bills. Among them: $7.5 million for electricity in October and $604,000 for meat served at the city's prisons, hospitals and other institutions. The officials even opened negotiations with trustees of the five city employee pension funds to use their $8.5 billion in assets as collateral...
...when Franco was stricken with phlebitis and was expected to die or retire. When Franco returned to office after a mere 45 days of hospitalization and recuperation, he abruptly elbowed the Prince aside. Humiliated, Juan Carlos vowed that if a similar situation ever arose he would accept office only on a permanent basis...
...meetings should be open to the press to say that I had never been misquoted by The Crimson. Your retaliation was swift, indeed. There were a number of embarrassing inaccuracies in your Thursday article reporting that my wife and I had informed the President that we would accept an offer to continue in a regular term as Co-Masters of Lowell House. First, the inclusion of "Mass Hall" and Mr. Bok's name in quotes in the second and third paragraphs as one who is "not willing to listen to the masters" and one who has "no faith...
...about the tone of the article, which makes Mary Lee and I seem some sort of martyrs for undergraduate education. It was only after concluding that time for our other interests would not be seriously infringed and that the positions would not be fiscally detrimental that we decided to accept an offer to continue...
Although individual professors are free to offer their consulting services to any group or country on their own time, Harvard does sometimes place restrictions on consulting work that it does as a university. Harvard does not accept contracts when restrictions are placed upon the personnel of a given project, Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said last week. Because the government of Saudi Arabia wanted to veto the employment of certain Harvard personnel on religious grounds, President Bok refused Harvard involvement in a health manpower project there a year and a half...