Word: acceptability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...just another attempt to get smoking thought of as acceptable behavior," Krevor added. "If the Columbian drug lords wanted to invest in America's educational system, would we want to accept their money...
...didn't want to take the jersey off," said Young, who, along with four other Harvard seniors, had just reached the end of a long and successful Crimson career. "It's hard to accept that this is it...it's hard to let it finish this...
Clark is clearly more expendable than Subic. The Air Force increasingly operates its long-range bombers and advanced fighters out of Guam. Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has offered to accept some air units from Clark in his country. Subic's facilities, on the other hand, cannot readily be replaced. They include extensive machine shops that maintain the U.S. fleet with low-cost labor unavailable at alternative sites in Singapore or Japan...
...Speaking for myself, I will accept the invitations. I have indicated to President Bush that I was honored by his invitation. But I will report to the A.N.C., and they will eventually decide whether I should accept the invitation...
...into institutional mind-sets, could not adjust to new realities and needs after the structure of Jim Crow had been torn down. At worst, the Great Society turned the leaders into petitioners, even while thousands upon thousands of working-class blacks toiled in the hardest, dirtiest jobs rather than accept welfare...