Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mature enough and wise enough to accept that the deepest meaning of solidarity requires that we consider ourselves as if we all were infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), that we are all living with AIDS...
What other explanation can there be for the council's apparent cave-in to administration demands that first-year students accept a non-ordered choice system to determine their housing over the next three years...
...what is the result? The economic growth of Latin America is now zero. Our countries have had to commit more than 50% of the value of our exports to debt service. That's intolerable. No country in the world can do this. If the U.S. was forced to accept these conditions to pay its debt, that would be really disastrous...
...According to ARTnewsletter, a trade sheet, the dealer William Acquavella offered the Dorrance estate a guarantee of $100 million, but Sotheby's trumped him with $110 million. Though the sale realized a total of $131.29 million, it did so only because Sotheby's had persuaded the heirs to accept a "global reserve" (the minimum price acceptable to the seller on the whole collection), instead of placing a reserve, or minimum, on each lot, as is more usual. This enabled Sotheby's to meet the bottom line by selling 15 out of 44 impressionist and modern paintings far under...
...self-deprecation also allows him to ward off praise, which he feels is the father of complacency. "When it's over, maybe I'll sit - down and say, 'Gee, we did something pretty terrific,' " he says. "But it's just not my nature." "He doesn't really accept compliments," says his son Kevin, a student at Notre Dame law school. When Notre Dame beat Pittsburgh 45-7 in October, Kevin called to congratulate him. What did Dad say in reply? "Kevin, did you see that S.M.U...