Word: acceptant
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...armed. On the Albanian side in Macedonia, the political leadership seems to be playing a double game. On the one hand they're making conciliatory statements to the Macedonian audience. On the other hand, when they're talking to foreign journalist they're calling for things Macedonia will never accept, such as creating a federation. The government won't accept this solution, because they see it as an inevitable step toward the disintegration of Macedonia and the creation of a Greater Kosovo, or Greater Albania...
...year-old makeup artist, says her biggest concerns are private: whether or not she should tell her boyfriend, an expatriate living in Bangkok, that she used to have a man's body. "Do you think I should?" she asks anxiously. She's not sure her boyfriend would accept her for what she is - and what she was. When she's told men in her past, they've usually become just that, men in her past. Can she risk telling the truth again? "Finding lovers is easy," she muses, "but finding someone who loves you is hard...
...only 10 House Democratic votes, compared with 48 for Reagan's, and some of the loudest opposition came from the most conservative Democrats--the "Blue Dogs" whom Bush aides had once considered potential allies. By forcing the most fiscally conservative members of the party to accept a tax cut they consider too large and by doing it before he produced the details of his budget and spending cuts, Bush galvanized the Democrats "in a way Dick Gephardt could never do," says Democratic Senator John Breaux. "That could spell serious problems for them on Medicare reform, education reform and other issues...
...holds the office of President is one of the few people who aren't caught up in legal and political minutiae and thus can see the bigger picture. The postelection hassles show how much the conservatives need Clinton as a whipping boy. Without him, they will have to accept responsibility for governing now that they have the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate and the House of Representatives. LEON F. DROZD JR. San Francisco...
...struggled to introduce a cap-and-trade system into the Kyoto Protocol, and achieved it by agreeing to a tough, many say impossible, target: bringing emissions 7% below 1990 levels from 2008 to 2012. The irony of the current situation is that the Europeans, reluctant to accept trading at first, have become its champion; Britain next month will become the first country to embark on a national trading system...