Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...send New York's 96-vote delegation to the convention uninstructed and uncommitted. In return he agreed to announce his availability for a draft. "Drafts come very seldom in this country." he duly announced, "but if a draft should come, I would be greatly honored, and I would accept." A newsman asked whether he was planning just to "sit by an open window waiting for a draft." Replied Rocky: "No. the office is air-conditioned...
...independence in 1958. "The government and the Assembly are nothing," said Touré last September. "They exist only to implement decisions of the party." Last year Communist agents from abroad flocked in to help with Red barter deals and aid programs, which Touré was happy to accept as an alternative to bankruptcy. Now Czechs, Poles, East Germans, Hungarians and even Red Chinese have their fingers in almost every facet of the government from the physical education program to economic planning. Under their guidance, Guinea has replaced the French franc with a currency of its own printed in Czechoslovakia. Western...
...sure which campus considers them suitable. Though high school guidance is improving, the pressure is rising so fast that even . the most fastidious counselor must steer youngsters to more and more colleges, hoping to get them in somewhere. In turn, colleges grow less sure of which students will accept them: many a small college begins the annual mating season with a deluge of applications, and winds up short of freshmen...
...committees formed by big colleges with similar goals and standards, to pick eleventh-graders. This might cut multiple applications from twelfth-graders by as much as one-third, encourage more students to apply to good small colleges as their first choice. ¶ A "matching plan" in which colleges would accept students in staggered waves. A central agency would keep track of those not accepted in the first-choice wave. A second and third wave would follow, until all were placed in orderly fashion...
...chairman of Tennessee, Corcoran said, he visited the commissioners last fall to spur action before the expiration of a Canadian deadline to build the pipeline. Corcoran said that Symonds told him to "bluntly" tell the commissioners that Symonds was not "calling wolf, wolf" when he said he would not accept less than a 7% rate of return for the pipeline to pump Canadian gas to the Midwest. FPC examiners had recommended 6¼%. Corcoran said he knew that issuing an "ultimatum" to the commissioners would not have been "the polite way to do it," so he made Symonds' point...