Word: acceptability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...friend of a friend. When a well-spoken young black man bursts into a Manhattan millionaire couple's home, bleeding from an apparent mugging and claiming to be both a Harvard chum of their children and the son of Sidney Poitier, the startled Wasp hosts believe him. They accept even his screwiest assertion, that he can get them bit parts in a film of Cats to be directed by his father, because they, like most victims of confidence tricks, are blinded by vanity...
...peaceful new Europe must remember that one of the worst mistakes after the First World War was the international isolation of the Weimar Republic. I am strictly against repeating that mistake. Germany, and that includes a unified Germany, is part of the Western community of shared values. We cannot accept anything less. It is remarkable that all Warsaw Pact countries except the Soviet Union are for full German membership in NATO. Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia are in favor of it -- unconditionally and completely. Why? Simply because they do not want Germany to be isolated. The U.S., all our other allies...
...concerned at all about motivations. I don't agree with such reasons, but the end result is the same. I want Germany to remain in NATO. The fact that there are reasons that are not particularly friendly to the Germans -- well, I can accept that in view of our history...
...respected. But they are not liked. Now nearly 17 million will be added, and those who recall the past say, "Ah, Kohl is trying to speed things up." They call it "Kohl's blitzkrieg." You have to live with that. I cannot deny our history; I have to accept it. If I meet a Jewish countryman whose family was killed at Auschwitz and who knows German but refuses to speak it, I have to respect that. I can only ask for forgiveness; I have no claim...
...received substantial help from a declining currency, which has made American goods less expensive overseas. Since 1985, the dollar has fallen 43% against major world currencies. American firms have also shown greater flexibility in negotiating trade deals. More U.S. companies are willing to barter or accept payment in local currency instead of dollars, notes consultant Matt Schaffer of Sand Point, Idaho, author of The Countertrade...