Word: acceptability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...more than two years, Reagan and Bush officials tried to avoid facing the issue. They treated the former pediatrician, now 63, mainly as an immigration problem, keeping him jailed in Miami as an "excludable alien" while trying to find a country that would accept him. Meanwhile, Florida Republicans pressed for his release. Last week the Justice Department yielded to the pressure, freeing the Castro foe. Explained one official: "The Cuba lobby did it again...
...marriage counselor in Boston too expensive? Arrange business lunches and collect honorariums. Need some extra income? Bill the government rent for staying in a condominium you own. Not until after the committee issued its recommendation did Durenberger concede that "I have made serious mistakes. I acknowledge them and accept full responsibility...
Sadly enough, White's was a kind of life that his father could never accept, or even imagine, for his only son. "The Joy of Gay Sex ((which White co- authored in 1977)) was promoted widely enough that I supposed some rumor of it might have reached even the Republican Valhalla of Cincinnati. My father had never mentioned the book to me. He had also stopped writing me. For that reason I was reluctant to face him. Thank God I did; he died a month later. At the funeral my stepmother told me he'd never known of the book...
...visited where a strong social fabric continues to bind a community together. Women walk their children through town and say "hi" to everyone they meet. Men gather in the evening on a porch and talk. Children ride their bicycles up and down the dirt roads. Though I can not accept their values, I envy their sense of community. And I can thank them for letting me--briefly--into their lives...
...United States reminds me of the executive that battled his way to the top of the corporate ladder. One day he looked from his lofty perch, a place of privilege, power, influence and wealth to the road he left behind. Easy to see but some-times difficult to accept, he saw his broken marriage, a shattered family whose children had no leadership and direction, and alie-nated friends. He began to realize that even his own health was suffering--although from all appearances and according to his business contacts he was the model of success. Inside, he was a mess...