Word: reject
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee which advised Bok on whether to accept or reject the Sociology, Department's tenure nominatic of Starr consisted primarily of members of a 1981 advisory committee that recommended to Bok to shift the department towards a quantitative approach to Sociology, Start said...
America is awakening to its complicity in the crime which is apartheid. It would be a travesty if Harvard, America's oldest and most prestigious university, continued to sleep. Harvard must go beyond tokenism; it must reject passivity. The bloodshed at Sharpeville, Crossroads and Soweto is too high a price to pay for an education. Harvard and other universities must cut their ties to South Africa; they must put people ahead of profit, that which is right ahead of that which is convenient. I join the call for total divestiture...
Some state health officials and certain colleges have resolved the campus measles problem by requiring all matriculating students to show proof of immunization. Since the outbreak, Principia has begun a vaccination program, but only on a voluntary basis, since Christian Science teachings reject such medical measures. State authorities meanwhile clamped a quarantine on the school, confining all students to campus until the epidemic ends. At Boston University, as students departed last week for their spring-break idylls, they were instructed by school officials not to return without certificates of immunization...
...people who live in the slum's 10,000 squalid shanties have not emerged entirely victorious. According to Viljoen, only 3,000 dwellings in Crossroads can be approved. Most of the squatters will still have to move, presumably to Khayelitsha, a new township eight miles away that many blacks reject as being too costly and too remote. Admitted Viljoen: "I can give no assurance that people will not be resettled under compulsion...
Feelings were running high in Bartlesville, Okla., last week, where Phillips shareholders debated Icahn's proposal; they began voting on whether to accept or reject a financial plan proposed by Phillips' management. A group of 40 townspeople burned a pile of Icahn's proxy statements...