Word: acceptability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...biggest strike against the Democrats is their continued refusal to accept domestic-spending reductions. When Budget Director Richard Darman suggested 47 cuts in health care, agriculture subsidies, federal loan guarantees and other giveaways good for $16 billion in savings next year, Panetta countered with a "core package" of reductions worth only $5.6 billion. Paltry though his offer was, Panetta lacked much support from fellow Democrats for even those meager measures. "None of our guys were ready to do that much," said a Democratic participant. Meanwhile, loyalty on the Republican side has broken down, especially on taxes. In recent weeks...
...came about because there is now a vacuum of deterrence. Israel's unacknowledged but undisputed nuclear arsenal makes it the only Middle Eastern country within range of Iraq's ballistic missiles that has felt relatively safe. But Jerusalem is not about to offer -- and no Arab state would ever accept -- an Israeli nuclear umbrella over anyone else's head. As for Iran, even if it emerges from its medieval isolation, it will take a long time to regain enough strength to make Saddam think twice before he sends forth his tanks and bombers again...
...feminism won more and more victories, Ms. allowed itself to become predictable and boring, losing the interest of both readers and advertisers. Eight months ago, it stopped publishing. Now Ms. is back, with a livelier appearance and a distinction rare in the magazine business: it does not accept or run ads. Arriving in subscribers' mailboxes this week is a revivified bimonthly that stresses the latest in feminist analysis and activism and that has a look resembling a handsome academic journal...
...five-member North Korean delegation to cross the border and meet with a South Korean dissident organization to plan a historic pan-national rally for Aug. 15, the 45th anniversary of liberation from Japan. But when the five arrived at the border, they first refused to accept South Korea's choice of a hotel and then insisted that the dissidents rather than government representatives escort them at the meeting. At that Seoul balked. After two days of arguing, the North Koreans returned home...
...provinces. Over the past three months, the northern republics of Slovenia and Croatia have held elections, ejecting incumbent communist governments and staking out positions that fall just short of independence. Slovenia's new government has served notice that it will declare itself independent if the other states do not accept its demands to turn Yugoslavia into a grouping of sovereign republics...