Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, if you accept the fact that college students are going to drink--a fact that some colleges do--then your efforts shift away from attempts to prevent them from drinking to efforts that recognize they will. The focus becomes ensuring the students' safety when they do drink...
...large part, Harvard's policies are responsibly designed to accept this truth. Looming in the shadows of any discussion of this nature is the very real possibility that students will die from alcohol poisoning, and that is a concern that trumps all others...
...assumption behind many of these futuristic scenarios is an idea that most researchers have begun to embrace but that many patients will undoubtedly find difficult to accept. That is the prediction that certain cancers may require treatment for the rest of a patient's long life. Coming out of a century that declared war on the disease, a century that felt the only reasonable response to a tumor was to annihilate it, this may be hard to imagine. But turning cancer into a controllable condition is not so different from treating high blood pressure or diabetes. "I don't think...
...Many medical schools consider the interview visit an opportunity to encourage the likelihood that, if admitted, the competitive applicant will accept the offer," Theresa J. Orr, associate dean for admissions at HMS, wrote in an e-mail message...
...said he will gladly accept the position...