Word: acception
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...student of longtime Los Angeles high school teacher Jaime Escalante's, now a teacher herself, called her former instructor "a master artist." Indeed, it was his refusal to accept commonly held beliefs that made his work so beautiful. Unlike many others, he refused to tolerate the notion that inner-city students were incapable of learning. Escalante, whose inspirational story was the basis for the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, died March 30 at 79 after a years-long battle with bladder cancer. Upon arriving in the U.S. from Bolivia, Escalante studied English at night to earn his California teaching credentials...
...only a question of CO[subscript 2] emissions but is one of resources, whether it is oil or energy or raw materials," he says. "It is independent of the current status of the U.S. or Europe or China. I'm convinced that in the long run, society will not accept waste." Drouven says people's awareness about environmental protection will continue to increase as the energy crisis deepens. He adds, "When that happens, we are a company that has already invested in conservation of energy. We have a head start...
More Harvard Square businesses have announced in the past month that they will accept Crimson Cash, a debit-based account that allows University affiliates to make purchases using their Harvard ID cards...
...structural inequality inherent to acquiring these internships. Since richer students have the means to forgo wages, socioeconomic class determines, in large part, one’s ability to procure an internship. This unfair economic stratification means that poorer students and graduates often cannot afford to accept unpaid positions...
...from Beijing. Chinese cyberattacks, trade games, asymmetric-war experiments - all these are part of our future. They won't stop just because the Chinese are being friendlier this week. Nor will the fact that our actions, even ones intended to reassure China, will often unnerve it. We have to accept that tension with China is unavoidable and that removing tension is not a strategy. To be sure, a vision that aims for a concept of co-evolution with China will be harder in the short run. But it accepts that China is, like it or not, a defining power...