Word: acceptibility
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...There are plenty, and we all know what those shows are. My film is supposed to reflect that; it is an indictment of the people who write and accept those shows, because we know that they exist today. It also has to do with the $1 million question: What is black? It is a never-ending quest for who we are, and some people are still in search of that...
...producers at NBC were uncertain that the nation would swallow Martin Sheen's squeaky-clean President Barlet. All sorts of polls have shown that the average American's faith in government has slid steadily downward since Watergate. Was it possible that a public so disillusioned with its leaders could accept the portrait of a politician with a magnetic personality, a benevolent heart, and a philosophy of being "for the people" who is neither a stooge nor a swindler...
...Lithuania has demanded documentation of his parents' residence that can no longer be found. Although the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has noted that Zadvydas "may in a sense be stateless," the court refused to free him because it is possible that Lithuania or Russia may be persuaded to accept him as a citizen in the future. Moreover, the court concluded, the INS has full power to detain Zadvydas--perhaps forever--until arrangements have been made to send him elsewhere...
More recently, the Bush campaign has made an active play for the voters who supported McCain but who were reluctant to accept his endorsement of Bush...
...good-sized towns not served by commercial air flight requires candidates to often travel by charter or personal aircraft. The accident itself is eerily similar to one 24 years ago, when Democrat Rep. Jerry Litton's plane crashed soon after takeoff as he was flying to Kansas City to accept his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate...