Word: acceptable
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...office, Bill Clinton is desperate for a foreign policy triumph. Anything that helps push the Monica Lewinsky scandal to a footnote when historians write his presidency. Moscow won't be any help. Clinton flew to Russia on June 3 to try to convince its new president, Vladimir Putin, to accept an American missile-defense system combined with a treaty to cut deeply into both sides' strategic nuclear arsenal, but Putin wasn't a bit interested. So the President has now turned to the Middle East as his last hope for a foreign policy victory. ?He wants to spend the remaining...
...Barak wowed Albright with an elaborate Japanese-themed dinner at the prime minister's residence and Arafat stuffed her with a lamb-and-fish lunch at his Ramallah office. But Albright still delivered a tough message. Time is running out with this administration. Both men have to accept the fact that ?neither side can get a hundred percent of what it wants,? she said. ?The tough decisions that must be made won't become any easier? the longer the two of them dither...
...means a lot to me because he barely graduated from high school, and he's real excited. He's an emotional guy, so he started crying when he heard. I was so pumped up we were able to go through with that, I'm real proud to have him accept...
...result was that the College tended to accept high academic achievers whose test scores were a good predictor of their success at the university level. Other colleges followed suit and, by the mid-1960s, most selective academic institutions used the Conant model for their admissions...
...They've published a novel, recorded a record, played in a symphony or are the best athlete in the country; there are those kids every year and Harvard with great vigor goes after them. But the other half is those murderously difficult judgments out of which valedictorian to accept. It's really hard to talk about who deserves to get in with a straight face," he says...