Word: acceptibility
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...sighing strings. The Boys sing lines like "I cannot hide I can't erase/ The way you make me feel inside/ You complete me girl that's why." The gushing, unapologetic pathos of the song may stink like rotten milk to some listeners. But if you're willing to accept sentiment in place of emotion, corniness in place of craft and corporate marketing in place of your own free will, it can be intoxicating...
...treaty, but it did so safe in the knowledge that it wouldn't have a prayer in the Senate. After all, Al Gore wasn't about to become the candidate urging Americans to trade in their SUVs for battery-powered cars, and if the Europeans weren't going to accept America's forests as the answer to its carbon gas emissions, they'd just have to go whistle...
...they are all trying to do their job out there, but quite frankly, they must understand that [in the future] I am not going to accept performances like this...
...being counted as votes. In Palm Beach and Broward counties, election workers are setting aside the dimpled ballots into "questionable" piles, where they await further deliberations. And the final arbiter will be the courts: Wednesday, Palm Beach Democrats will go to court to try to force election officials to accept broader interpretations of "intent to vote" with regard to the dimpled chads...
...demanding that the treaty recognize the ability of forests to function as "carbon sinks," soaking up carbon gases - in the best-case scenario for Washington, its existing forests and forestation programs would cover as much as half of its required emission cuts should other parties to the treaty accept the principle. But that may be something of a long shot: European governments and U.S. environmental groups are skeptical of the suggestion that U.S. targets should be halved simply because of the existence of its forests and their function in soaking up carbon gases, which remains a matter of considerable debate...