Word: acceptability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...people with the basic dignity that all humans deserve" means granting basic rights of food and shelter. Our insensitivity to the homeless population does not begin and end in averting our eyes, but in allowing people to become destitute. Smith's attitude is typcial of those who not only accept homelessness, but take it for granted...
...Kerry first ran for the Senate in 1984 and was the first in a crowded held to declare that he would not accept PAC money," said Kerry spokesperson Michael Meehan. "Sen. Kerry obtains his campaign funding solely from individuals," he said, adding that last year 45,000 donors contributed to Kerry's reelection fund...
Fellow Massachusetts Democratic politician, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, won acclaim during the 1988 presidential campaign for refusing to accept donations from PACs...
...points of view are equal (hence none really worth passionate argument, deep analysis or stalwart defense), into the strident assertion that anyone who argues for the superiority of a distinctive moral insight or way of life is elitist or anti-democratic--and therefore immoral. One must not simply accept another's lifestyle, but celebrate it as just as valid as one's own. Or be branded a bigot...
Even though it was his first time, Arends was unrelentless with himself. He would accept nothing less than perfection...