Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...been a little higher than the norm, he had that much farther to fall." So writes Tina Sinatra (with Jeff Coplon) in "My Father's Daughter" (Simon & Schuster; 313 pages; $26), her affectionate but clear-eyed memoir about life with Frank. The thought continues: "I could accept him as just a man. But he'd stood so large in my eyes that I couldn't bear to see him smaller than life...
Perhaps the public's inability to accept the new golden dollar coin is a psychological phenomenon, suggests Harvard Coop Supervisor Kevin Haggerty...
...dollar bill is just so ingrained in the American psyche," Haggerty says. "As long as the bill is around, people will accept the bill over the coin...
...still need dollar bills for vending machines," Pugh says. "Not even slot machines will accept these coins. They look sort of like chocolate money...
...recognized that Arafat may not be able to stop the current rebellion even if he chose to, what's less commonly recognized is that this is not simply because the next generation of intifada-ists who have taken up the stones of their older siblings will be disinclined to accept the old man's leadership. Every popular uprising, after all, has a leadership of its own, which organizes the street confrontations to channel anger for maximum political effect. And what may be most important about the current intifada is that its leaders are, in many cases, the same...