Word: acceptability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...going to have to inject into our school system," says Hasan al-Ebraheem. "We have to break up the university, create elite centers of training in specific skills like banking and business, and then we have to encourage those who cannot make it in those places to accept vocational training...
...environmentalists must accept part of the blame for the present policy paralysis, they also deserve credit for some noteworthy victories this year. In a remarkably swift turnabout, Japan agreed to phase out its large-scale drift-net operations in the Pacific. Under pressure, Taiwan and South Korea have also agreed to curb the use of the giant nets, which indiscriminately trap turtles and marine mammals along with fish. In the U.S. the Interior Department banned offshore drilling in a number of sensitive areas for 10 years, buying time to understand better the interaction of oil and delicate marine ecosystems...
Though his accomplishments were virtually unknown outside the conservation community, the shot that killed him echoed around the world. His widow Ilzamar, now 25, was soon traveling to the U.S. and other countries to accept posthumous awards showered on Mendes by environmental groups. She sold the rights to his story for more than $1 million. Producer David Puttnam will make a movie; numerous books, TV documentaries and magazine articles are in the works...
...remarkably complicated society in which we have been incapable of having all our citizens share in the fruits of our national labors. But it would be remarkably shortsighted and illogical to say that the responsibility for that lies with those who generate new information. We must all accept the responsibility for the social problems that so much are the underlying causes for poor health and disease...
Given these realities, there is more pressure than ever on Washington to accept a resolution of the crisis that would enable Saddam to survive. Such a settlement, a deal that does not look like a deal, could take various shapes...