Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Look," Lerner explains about RTH's decision to accept Harvard's offer, "if I wanted to have someone drive my car to New York City, and a guy says he is going down to New York and he would be willing to take my car but only by flat-bed trailer, I'll take it, because otherwise my car doesn't get to New York, at all." Lerner says, "Harvard doesn't give away ice in the winter," but the University has taken certain risks that it didn't have to take simply to make sure that the housing project...
...firm but fair' dictum still holds," Powers says. Whether Harvard's labor unions will be able or willing to accept the University's definition of fairness is of course another question...
...committee does have more specific projects planned, which appear to presage more concrete recommendations. These include discussions of recruiting (minority in particular), the image Harvard projects through its literature, what kind of "advertising" it should do, and how to encourage students to accept admission...
Hough apparently revels in Jesus Christ figures, and Gifford needs those 30 pages to accept the responsibility for the sins of some kids who cuss in front of their neighbors, a drunk who dies in a flophouse room, and Jimmy Johnson himself. The verdict is hardly definitive for Gifford, who anguishes, with the italicism that is appropriate to a Monday morning quarterback of the Crucifixion, "What if he's innocent?" Jimmy Johnson has become a Christ-figure too, and before Gifford can finish his narrative/life, he must accept the burden of fingered Jimmy, who, albeit begrudgingly, bore the sins...
Even before the weekend disorders, there had been signs that Louisville's whites were not going to accept busing without resistance. At Fairdale High, in a suburban working-class neighborhood, 70% of the white pupils stayed home, although most of the 300 blacks assigned to the school made the long ride from the city. Many of the black students were nervous as they approached their new schools. As one busload of blacks from Shawnee Junior High School in Louisville drew up to Valley Station High in the suburbs, Leslie Lacy, 17, commented anxiously, "I think I'll paint...