Word: acceptably
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Human beings, by nature, are a skeptical bunch. Fads and le dernier cri (the trendy French for "the latest trends," ironically) aside, we are often hesitant to accept concepts which are new and alien, especially when it comes to technology. Consider the group of Aristotelian professors who made the following pronouncement to Galileo after he claimed to have discovered Jupiter's moons using a telescope: "[They] are invisible to the naked eye and therefore do not exist." Or the snappish response of Warner Brothers' founder H. M. Warner, who retorted in a 1927 interview, "Who the hell wants to hear...
...that writes the dietary guidelines may nonetheless recommend a milk-friendly diet is, the activists charge, partly a result of a conflict of interest. The group claims that six of the 10 committee members have had ties to the meat or dairy industries because they serve as consultants or accept research grants or speaking dates...
...sixth invited fellow, the former President of Ecuador, has not yet told the IOP whether he will accept...
...ACCEPT THE CALL...
...leaders of the "Jungen Wilden," the Young Wild Ones, a group of up-and-coming, fortysomething local politicians in the C.D.U. Wulff was an early critic of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl's, even trying to block Kohl from running for a fifth term in 1998. "The C.D.U. does not accept that anybody puts himself outside the legal system," Wulff said last week, referring to Kohl's refusal to name the source of illegal contributions to the party. A big liability for Wulff is that he is the C.D.U.'s party leader in Lower Saxony, home of the current Chancellor, Gerhard...