Word: acceptability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...made your choice, and I told you I can accept it. And I can. But can you? Can you continue to be the responsible, caring, sensitive and egalitarian person you have been? Will you defend me and what I represent? When you're sitting around with your male club members in your closed space smoking cigars and drinking gin and tonics, will you cede me the respect I continue to have for you? Do you trust your new fellows and the institution you have just joined enough to be responsible for them and their actions...
Your choice has its consequences because it's not just your club; it's our community. I hope this new community--your club--will accept you and your values as much as I have tried to do. I will try to respect you in your decision. Please respect me. I speak from a position of weakness because I have no control over that community which excludes me and others of my gender...
...protest, activist monks declared a boycott against military men and their families, refusing to accept the alms from them that earn the donor merit in a future life, or to participate in weddings and funerals. The boycott stirred anxiety among the troops. "Most of the young soldiers come from villages where monks are held in high respect," says Omar Farouk, a Burmese Muslim living in Bangkok...
...public opinion still seems solidly behind Bush. But he risks eroding that support when he muddles explanations of his policy. He has declared, for example, that he would be willing to accept a peaceful settlement in which Saddam withdraws from Kuwait with his military intact. Yet the President has also compared Saddam to Hitler, who is identified in the public mind as a ruler so vicious that the only solution is to destroy him. Critics charge besides that any settlement permitting the Iraqi dictator to stay in control of an army equipped with chemical, biological and eventually perhaps nuclear weapons...
...meticulously researched work of broadcast history as well as a piquant glimpse inside CBS's corporate culture. Especially poignant is Smith's description of the complex relationship between Paley and Frank Stanton, the longtime president and "conscience" of CBS, who was crushed when Paley cast him aside rather than accept him as successor. It was a pattern that would be repeated with one heir apparent after another. By the end of his reign, Smith says bluntly, Paley, well into his 80s, "had become an albatross for the network...