Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sickest. Patterson inherits from Capital the two problems that brought it low: the debt to Vickers, and an inefficient route structure. Patter son intends to clear up both problems. He has already got Vickers' agreement to take back 15 turboprop Viscounts bought on credit by Capital, and to accept United common stock as full payment on Capital's debt. Vickers may lose as much as $9,000,000 on the deal. Shrewdly, Patterson has also made the merger dependent on permission from the Civil Aeronautics Board to drop 20 cities on Capital routes, thus getting the line...
...televised session, William Y. Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science and chairman of the three-day conference, suggested governmental reorganization. Quoting vice-President Nixon's remark--"We must weld together executive agencies into an economic, political, and ideological whole"--he emphasized that interested private foundations accept public administration...
Rocky still seemed to be cherishing a faint hope of a presidential-nomination draft. He solemnly declared that he would accept a "genuine draft," though he added that the possibility was "very remote...
...Presbyterian missionary who has spent 20 years in Africa, takes an optimistic long view. "This whole thing will work out best for the church." he said. "It was very difficult to pull out and leave them, but now the Africans will have to take over the church themselves and accept responsibility, and perhaps they will develop it into even a more worthwhile thing than we could...
Unique Man. In reply, the Rev. Dr. Mascall is prepared to accept the victory of the Darwinian theory of evolution. But he does not think the story ends there. Biologist Huxley, he says, has overlooked the significance of two "striking conclusions" of biology that are of great importance to theology. The first: man, as an intelligent being, is unique on earth. The second: "With the appearance of an intelligent being, evolution as generally understood . . . has virtually come to an end, or, to state the position in a different way, an entirely new mode of evolution has come into being...