Word: acceptability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Miami city commission is considering a novel scheme to help defray the operating costs of the city's new Claude and Mildred Pepper Fountain. A machine to be located nearby may charge citizens a rate of $21 an hour to turn on the pump. And, yes, it will accept credit cards...
...architecture is very good," he says, "huge scale can be a vehicle for doing an exceptional building." Coming from almost anyone else, that would be disingenuous tripe. When Pelli delivers platitudes about making cities better -- "In a good city every building should be a gift" -- one tends to accept the earnestness. His work has earned...
...horizon" policy toward the U.S. -- they wanted protection but preferred that it be invisible. Faced with Saddam's legions, Fahd quickly < changed his mind. Even as U.S. Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney flew to Riyadh immediately after the invasion of Kuwait, Fahd conferred with key royals and decided to accept American troops if Cheney made a convincing case. When the Defense Secretary said President Bush was prepared to help defend the kingdom, Fahd replied, "That's what I thought. Come...
...country's internal order that some Saudis are just beginning to push for. As Prince Salman's cool reaction to the businessmen in Riyadh suggests, the royals show no willingness to relinquish their monopoly on power. Over time, however, they may see little choice. "It is our tradition to accept authority," says a Saudi professional in Dhahran, adding significantly, "unless the legitimacy of authority is lost." Now that the once closed kingdom has been shocked into opening its doors to the outside world, King Fahd may discover that his people will yearn for a greater say in how their lives...
...expectations of the first year become a willingness to accept mediocrity later on. After a year of carrying stadium binoculars to see the professor in Sanders, students happily accept "small" 50-student classes. After three terrible cores in the first semester of one's first year, the prospect of one terrible core junior year doesn't seem...