Word: acceptability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...House negotiators] would accept it in concept, I'm sure we could work out the technical way of doing it," she said...
...their own nuclear deterrent. Never mind what Kohl told Bush at Camp David in February, or what Bush told Mikhail Gorbachev at the same mountaintop retreat earlier this month, or what Gorbachev told the Supreme Soviet two weeks ago when he seemed, with much ambiguity and no enthusiasm, to accept the idea of the West German army remaining in NATO. Never mind what agreements were signed as a result of the Two-plus-Four talks back in the early 1990s. Germany will do what it thinks necessary to protect itself against the clear and present dangers...
...self-sufficiency. Tehran sent signals that foreign rescue workers and sniffer dogs were not wanted and, at first, forbade direct rescue flights from abroad. Soon, however, the extent of the destruction forced Iran to relent. Though it barred all aid from Israel and South Africa and refused to accept blood donations from any outsiders, Tehran asked for food, water tanks, electric generators and medical supplies, including blood plasma. The world responded immediately. Japan pledged relief funds and goods worth more than $1.5 million. Britain dispatched two planeloads of medicine, clothing and food. Even Iran's sworn enemy, President Saddam Hussein...
...acknowledged at all, are attributed to the need to maintain a strong defense. Internal travel is carefully monitored, and households are organized into groups of five, with each family encouraged to report subversive activities by its neighbors. Still, few North Koreans admit envying their brethren in the South. Most accept their government's description of South Korea as an undemocratic U.S.-puppet regime plagued by AIDS, pollution and prohibitive costs...
...prison, Mandela indicated that a top priority after his release would be to restore black unity by mending the rift. But when he proposed a meeting with Buthelezi last March, militants inside his organization vetoed the idea. "They nearly throttled me," said Mandela, who insists that he must accept such decisions because he remains "a loyal and disciplined member of the A.N.C...