Word: acceptability
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...major archaeological sites. Elda Chiaraviglio, a Turin travel agent who helped organize the group, called the visit "a leap backward into medieval Islam, but fascinating." While many Iranians remain hostile to the U.S., she noted, the American dollar was the only foreign currency that Iranian black marketeers would accept...
...Most deputies believe we need new laws for agriculture and land," Karpov said. "The people, if they understand democracy and accept--that is good...
Even gun owners seem inclined to accept such restrictions. In a poll for TIME/CNN by the firm of Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 56% of the gun owners questioned described themselves as supporters of the N.R.A. Yet 73% approved of mandatory registration of semiautomatic weapons. Also, 87% said they would support passage of a federal law to require a seven-day waiting period and a background check for anyone wanting to buy a handgun. Those are proposals that the House will consider again in its upcoming session...
...year after the schoolyard massacre in Stockton, Calif., gave gun control a new impetus, the N.R.A. looks for a way to maintain its clout. -- TIME poll describes a nation where many share a devotion to guns -- and a willingness to accept regulations. -- For and Against: leaders of the N.R.A. and Handgun Control speak about firearms. -- Washington Mayor Marion Barry may finally have run out of luck. -- The McMartin sex case abused children, defendants, judge and jurors for six exhausting years...
...that the United Nations should help administer and police war-weary Cambodia until a new government is elected. But it remains to be seen to what extent the contending factions -- especially the Khmer Rouge, the most powerful of three resistance groups fighting Prime Minister Hun Sen's regime -- will accept U.N. intervention...