Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Hong Kong, but sadly I cannot convince others." Hong Kong's left-wing newspapers, which often reflect Beijing's views, accused the bank of abandoning the colony and damaging public confidence. Editorialized one of them: "The Hongkong bank wants to retain its privileges. It just doesn't want to accept any responsibility...
Most Principled Congressperson Would nobody step forward and accept responsibility for the $500 billion S&L debacle? Wait! Who's that dowdy Representative resigning her seat to atone for Congress's sins? Lacey Davenport, the heart-of-gold legislator from the glorious state of Doonesbury. The grande dame was swept back into office in a write-in campaign...
Gorbachev, frustrated over the refusal of many republics to accept his draft of a new treaty of union, asserted that he would submit it to a popular referendum within each republic; the Baltic republics promptly declared that they would not let such a referendum be held on their turf. Most ominous, Gorbachev announced that he might introduce a "state of emergency or presidential rule" in areas where the "situation becomes especially tense and there is a serious threat to the state and to people's well-being." That might have been the trigger for Shevardnadze's resignation...
Operatives for the now divorced author are casting around for a professional writer to pen the first of "her" two novels. It's proving difficult to find a well-known scribe willing to accept $300,000 for the uncredited job, especially when Ivana's sitting on an estimated $3 million book contract...
...brilliant grown-up orphan: he had an air that was both distinguished and tattered. Something in his mind had broken years before. He survived on technique. Ernest taught me how to forage for an all-American diet: wait politely behind a fast-food place at closing time and accept the unsold hamburgers and fries. A third problem, keeping clean, was difficult but manageable: a cold-water spigot in the morning...