Word: accept
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...things like this, but I can't do it without getting upset and angry. Sexism does not make sense to me; I don't respond to it well. So how do I get someone who can't or won't see things from my point of view to accept this anger, and respond? I can talk about fear; I don't know what has to happen for anyone to begin to understand...
...Panamanian presidency over Francisco Rodriguez, whom Noriega picked after calling off the election last May. Rodriguez urged Panamanians to resist the U.S. troops, then disappeared. Endara had little international support last week, except from the U.S. Neither the United Nations nor the Organization of American States would accept his ambassadors...
...order to believe the Soviet Union is capable of waging and quite possibly winning a war against the West, one has to accept as gospel a hoary and dubious cliche about the U.S.S.R.: the place is a hopeless mess where nothing works, with the prominent and crucial exception of two institutions -- the armed forces and the KGB. A Kremlin that cannot put food on its people's tables can put an SS-18 warhead on top of a Minuteman silo in North Dakota, some 5,000 miles away. Even though 15% to 20% of the grain harvested on the collective...
...vanished. First reports said that they had helicoptered from their palace to the airport, where they boarded a plane heavily laden with loot. Then they were reported to be traveling by car. There was speculation that they had fled abroad, but if so, only three countries seemed likely to accept them: China, which also sends tanks against its own people; North Korea, where dictator Kim Il Sung maintains a cult as extravagant as Ceausescu's; and Iran, where the Rumanian despot last week placed a wreath on the Ayatullah Khomeini's grave. At week's end Rumanian TV said...