Word: acceptant
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...UNMOVIC chief Hans] Blix keeps saying, "I don't have any evidence, but I cannot exclude the possibility." In light of the Iraqi past record of concealment and deceit, that's obviously not good enough for the Security Council. The uncertainty is too wide for the council to accept...
Diagnosing mental disorders has always been a tricky business, with doctors often relying on little more than observation, experience and the occasional hunch. Once the labels are applied, however, they stick, and medical texts tend to accept the results as truth--reporting, say, that two times as many women suffer from depression as men or that twice as many men suffer from alcoholism. Similarly, women are said to be more prone to anxiety disorders, while men may lean toward conditions stemming from impulsiveness and violence...
...come after me." Eventually, he says, his thoughts were disjointed most of the time. "I couldn't focus on anything." Finally, the Air Force court-martialed him for dereliction of duty, and he was given a less than honorable discharge. Still, neither he nor his parents were ready to accept the idea that he had a mental illness--although by then his grandmother's history was no longer a secret. "Maybe we were trying so hard to forget," says Velma...
...flagship product; in Fair Haven, New Jersey. Until 1961, when Waters was hired, charge cards were used mostly by restaurants, Visa and MasterCard did not exist, and the American Express card lagged behind one offered by Diners Club. One of his first moves was to persuade American Airlines to accept the American Express card; other airlines and businesses followed quickly...
...south, where hardly any shops bother to hang the president's portrait. But people are still cautious. Even in Karbala, the heart of the majority Shia community, Abdul Sahib Naser Nasrulla, the chief of the biggest mosque, gripes about America's lust of Iraq's oil. "Will Americans accept it if Saddam Hussein wants to change their president?" he says. "Who gave the Americans the right to tell Iraqis that their President is not good...