Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gore said he supported the McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill, which would ban "soft-money" contributions to political parties, and he trumpeted his refusal to accept money from political action committees...
Mazzoleni was enticed by Harvard athletic director Bill Cleary '56 to accept the position of head coach for the Crimson in July, after Ron Tomassoni stepped down after nine seasons in charge. He was one of a handful of candidates Cleary considered to replace Ronn Tomassoni, Harvard's coach for the past nine seasons, along with Yale's Tim Taylor '63 and St. Lawrence's Joe Marsh...
...example, Harvard forced its security guards to work for nearly five years without a contract, by refusing to negotiate in good faith. Harvard's disrespectful treatment degraded the jobs of its unionized security guards so thoroughly that, this fall, roughly half of them decided that they would rather accept a buy-out than remain at Harvard...
...longer permit the impoverishment of its members--janitors, security guards or whoever. We must refuse to permit the purging of workers who have devoted their lives to this University. Today, the janitors begin their contract negotiations. Students, faculty and workers must now publicly make clear that we will not accept the degradation and abuse of any member of our community. We need to publicly make clear that we stand in solidarity with our janitors...
...necessity of but have no enthusiasm for. What you're asking is that they believe in something they don't find wholly believable, believe in it because the belief itself if not its object would be good. Fair enough. Only leave them the irony they'll need to accept their fate as conscript crusaders...