Word: acceptability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Well, now we know. Saddam Hussein has reminded Americans the world is a nasty place. Americans do not appreciate the reminder. They find it hard to accept the fact that as the planet's only remaining superpower, the U.S. is the one nation that can, and therefore must, face down the nasties...
...their peers. This approach "provides people with a feeling that they can give as well as receive help," says Joe Rogers, president of the city's self-help group Project SHARE. But the impact of the model mental-health programs is far too limited. Fountain House, for example, can accept only 1 out of every 5 people who apply for membership...
...Congress squabbled in search of a budget, Bush during three dizzying days switched his position at least four times on the key question of what additional taxes the most affluent citizens should pay to help reduce the budget deficit. On Tuesday morning he declared that he might accept raising income taxes on the wealthy in exchange for his long-sought cut in taxes on capital gains. That afternoon he backpedaled under pressure from Senate Republicans: White House aides announced that Bush did not favor pursuing such a deal. Two days later, facing countervailing pressure from House Republicans, Bush reopened...
After spending an hour with Peri Wallace, co-captain of the Harvard women's volleyball team, you get a feeling of warmth and acceptance, a feeling that you are sitting with your best friend. She is so cheerful that it is easy to accept the tremendous praise she receives from her coach, teammates, and friends...
...axiomatic that in the end the American people must accept responsibility for what is happening inside the beltway. Too many voters have allowed themselves to be seduced by the notion that they can have their goodies from government with no increase in price. A mighty military, Social Security, Medicare, farm subsidies, poverty programs, housing, highways, bridges, clean air, clean water, veterans' benefits -- the whole great panoply of federal involvement in American life -- must, like everything else, be paid for. Today, it is not being paid for. The federal deficit, now nearly $300 billion if various "off-budget" items like...