Word: acceptibility
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...University would put more money into these firms if it could, but venture capital concerns are limited in the amount of money they can accept, a problem for institutional investors with very large endowments--like Harvard...
...announced a package of new policies, including a promise that it would provide in its advertising explanations of why any of its films received PG-13, R or NC-17 ratings--for instance, for violence, sex, profanity or drug use--and that its ABC-TV network would no longer accept ads for R-rated movies during prime time before 9 p.m. Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America, admitted to the committee that the FTC report identified some practices--like focus groups for 10-year-olds--that should end. But he insists that the ratings system adopted...
...July, Judge Parker dealt the prosecution two blows. He ruled that the defense could use highly sensitive material in court, forcing the government to accept a compromise of secret information. And he allowed Lee's lawyers to subpoena internal government documents that might shed light on whether racial profiling had been used to target Lee in the first place. Both rulings threatened to make a trial unpleasant for the government. Lee's lawyers planned to portray him as an unlikely spook, more bumbling and naive than clever and secretive, who had asked for a colleague's help in moving...
...large areas of agreement between the two sides--much wider than anyone would guess from hearing the candidates slam each other. Agreement begins with the most basic calculation: How much money will be available to fund tax cuts and new spending and to pay off federal debt? Both sides accept a Congressional Budget Office estimate that with no changes in policy, the government will rake in a staggering $4.6 trillion more than it pays out over the next 10 years...
...keep employees and that the dollar investment in it is far less than the cost of replacing an employee. Still, in encouraging folks to follow their feelings and develop their strengths, corporations are taking a risk: that their most valued employees may be coached right out the door. Companies accept this risk--because they have to. "I expect job movement, job redefinition, attrition," says Creswell. "Those are the realities. It's the people who decide...