Word: acceptability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Perhaps it's time for a change in people's attitudes. True, I unhappily admit to knowing several kids who insist on talking only about the SATs and the prestigious university they "know" will accept them. However, the majority of the kids I've met are warm, friendly people who would much rather complain about the Union food or talk about the latest movie than bore classmates with tales of all their community service back home...
Three Broadway theaters will impose a ceiling of $24 on tickets for plays produced under the plan. To slash costs, Alliance members will work for less money. Actors, for example, will accept a 25% reduction in minimum salaries and receive a share of any profits. The Alliance hopes the markdowns will bring back theater enthusiasts who have been forced to turn to off-Broadway houses...
...course, is to induce Moscow to accept a unified Germany as a member of NATO. Said an adviser to French President Francois Mitterrand: "We must convince the Soviets that NATO is not a threat to their security, even with -- and especially with -- a united Germany included in its ranks. All the rest is essentially detail...
Though she has been unwilling to overturn Roe altogether, O'Connor has voted in favor of several state laws that would restrict abortion. She wrote in a 1983 decision that she could accept such limitations so long as they were not "unduly burdensome" to a pregnant woman. That left open a big question: Just what burdens would the Justice consider too heavy? "This legal fight over abortion is like a game of stud poker," says Roger Evans, an attorney for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. "Each decision forces Justice O'Connor to turn over one more card revealing what...
...toughest Vatican decree on dissent in modern times warns theologians to be scrupulously loyal -- or else. -- Reform Judaism votes to accept gay rabbis...