Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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On the other hand, Clark has been willing to suffer through initial disappointment with a business that gives signs of eventually becoming a major profit maker. He nursed the American Express credit-card operation through years of losses while Amexco was spending heavily to promote it. The company now has...
Students in East House and Lowell House have indicated in a poll that they generally favor the experiment in coeducational living proposed for this Spring, although only a minority say that they would be willing to participate.
Seventy-one per cent of those voting from Lowell House-only 41 per cent of the House-favored the experiment. Only 58 men, or 25 per cent of the respondents, however, said that they would be willing to move to Radcliffe.
The only way to end permanently such indefensible activities is to convince the men undertaking them to stop. That cannot be done by coercion or hints at coercion; threats might make researchers more attached to their work, and more willing to pursue it elsewhere.
"I'm looking for a couple of writers who would like to find out what goes on in Cambridge Saturday night. I'll be going to different places where lots of things will be happening and I'm willing to take some people from here with me."