Word: accepting
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Under the provisions of the Kraus plan, individual departments and their committees on graduate school admissions rank students for admission on the basis of academic merit. In making decisions on admissions, the departments are permitted to skip over higher-ranked needy students and accept lower-ranked students who are not in need...
...teachers are not going to accept their situation as victims of a depressed and inflated economy. If necessary, they will strike...
...battle between labor and management in Britain took a small, hopeful turn last week. At the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress in Blackpool, delegates representing more than ten million workers voted to accept Prime Minister Harold Wilson's recently announced program of wage restraints (see box page 61). Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey called it "a unique achievement" and there was euphoric speculation that the "I'm All Right Jack" era of union truculence might be over. The optimism is probably premature. The social conflicts that underlie Britain's labor problems...
Owen: I cannot accept socialism, but I'm not very happy with the Conservative Party. It doesn't have any clearly discernible policy other than wanting to put the clock back 20 years. It just doesn't seem very realistic...
...common interest. Maximum efficiency is good for both management and the unions because it produces greater profit. By all means let's argue how much of that profit is distributed to the work force, but for goodness' sake let's produce. The trade unions must accept, with all the power they have, some responsibility...