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Word: acceptability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...never easy to accept the way the military...is set up," Mancuso says. "I continually question the role of the Army...but I'm not cynical about...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Defending Their Country, and Reputation | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...must be evangelized.Peninsula doesn't disguise this agenda: "[N]o one should come to Harvard with a firm grasp of the truth just to lose it in the quagmire of attitudes prevalent here...[W]e hope to present the truth in such a manner that those willing can accept and believe it," (emphasis mine...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: No Mag Is an Island | 3/14/1990 | See Source »

Harvard should provide sufficient funding to the Women's Studies committee so that it can accept everyone who wants to choose the concentration and have room for all non-concentrators who want to take Women's Studies courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Majority Doesn't Rule | 3/13/1990 | See Source »

...election-day ban on alcohol and generously sampled rum. On the other side of Managua, it was well past midnight before Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was finally convinced of her upset victory. As the news sank in, Chamorro's perpetually smiling face clouded with worry. Would the Sandinistas accept the people's verdict? Rising from her wheelchair and perching carefully to favor her right knee, broken in a fall in January, Chamorro gestured for silence among the 100 people gathered in her spacious living room. Then she began reciting the Hail Mary. "God bless Nicaragua," she concluded, her voice choked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After The Revolution: The Sandinistas | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

Washington seems prepared to accept the Sandinistas in the role of loyal opposition. "There is space in a democratic Nicaragua for the expression of all political points of view," said White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. Robert Pastor, Jimmy Carter's chief Latin American adviser, suggests that Bush go further, for example by inviting Sandinista ministers to Washington along with the new government to work out the terms of U.S. aid. "The Sandinistas should be given as many incentives as possible for cooperation," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: But Will It Work? | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

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