Word: toaccept
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Department members say that one of the chiefobstacles to making key appointments has been areluctance on the part of some professors totenure anyone. Part of Foner's appeal in thedepartment may have been that he was not likely toaccept an offer...
...Academy, inanswer to the critics, have tried to make a casethat "ambiguity" is inherent in the socialsciences. For example, an anonymous member ofClass V told the Harvard Crimson reporter(13 March) that the critiques of Huntington's workas pseudo-science by hard scientists in theAcademy reflect their psychological inability toaccept ambiguity. "I don't know that any socialscientist would meet their standards. They arepsychologically angered by it. They are people whowant certainty," the member is quoted as saying."They have no tolerance for ambiguity." Whoeverthe member was, his statement is very similar tothe statement by Seymour Martin Lipset, that "tobe...
Another shortcoming of colleges anduniversities, Bennett says, is their failure toaccept responsibility for the moral education oftheir students...
...Faculty's steering committee voted toaccept the report on Wednesday, and Dean of theFaculty A. Michael Spence now will determine howto proceed with the report's recommendations,Faculty Secretary John R. Marquand said
...church's development director also saysthat the Archdiocese will have to carefully weighwhat kind of contrast there is between a profitand non-profit proposal. "If Mrs. Kiely has awonderful proposal, and the alternative issomething the community is very much against," hesays, then the Archdiocese might be tempted toaccept a bid that was not quite as lucrative asone from a profit-oriented development...