Word: acceptability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...added that she was unsure if American society was ready to accept this type of investigation, but told other Afro-American scholars in the crowd that they "should not rely on others" to do this type of research...
...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. But not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret...
Prosecutors are also reluctant to bring cases to trial unless the evidence is overwhelming. Of the 38 defendants tried so far, all but three were convicted. Authorities are often willing to accept a guilty plea to a reduced charge: 30 of the 111 suspects arrested in last May's killings have pleaded guilty...
Increasingly, in fact, televisionaries are telling us to read the writing on the screen and accept that ours is a postliterate world. A new generation of children is growing up, they say, with a new, highly visual kind of imagination, and it is our obligation to speak to them in terms they understand. MTV, USA Today, the PC and the VCR -- why, the acronym itself! -- are making the slow motion of words as obsolete as pictographs. The PLAY button's the thing. Writing in the New York Times not long ago, Robert W. Pittman, the developer of MTV, pointed...
...Anytime rules are established that eliminatethe ascension of Asian-Americans, Hispanics orwomen, then those rules must be re-evaluated,"said Jackson after an address at the Institute ofPolitics. "I cannot accept that a set of rulesthat eliminates minorities is a sound...