Word: acceptibility
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...quite. For crucial days, Russian officials had rejected Western offers of help, including the dispatch of U.S., French, British and Norwegian rescue equipment. Then on Wednesday, Putin ordered Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov, the navy commander in chief, to accept help. The Russians promptly invited Norway and Britain to send equipment, but by then it was already a near certainty that any survivors would perish before the rescuers could reach the area. Indeed, shortly before the British team arrived on Saturday, the Northern Fleet commander said, "The critical line of survivability has been closed...
Many agencies of the U.S. Government are working to oversee the new technology. American farmers accept the expertise of authorities, and will continue to produce what consumers want--healthy, abundant and affordable food. One point to remember: opponents have yet to come up with verifiable evidence that products enhanced through biotechnology are unsafe for humans or threaten the environment. BOB STALLMAN, PRESIDENT American Farm Bureau Federation Park Ridge...
...Everyone wants to know if Clinton, who's scheduled to speak Monday night at the Staples Center, will pluck that monkey from Gore's back, accept full blame for the Lewinsky scandal, and raise the vice president above such sordid matters. Clinton did take a step in that direction this week, speaking to a church group; he explained that he was still picking up the pieces after what he'd done to his family, and that no reasonable person could possibly associate Gore with his own misstep...
...examine Cheney's personal and business affairs was Bush. A day after the announcement, campaign spokeswoman Karen Hughes said Bush was still reviewing the Cheney trail, a statement Bush later made a point of correcting. Even so, it was as if the Bush team expected Democrats and reporters to accept what Bush clearly took for granted as universally understood: that Cheney, by virtue of his role in the Gulf War, was a man of unassailable credentials...
While friends say her relationship with her father is obviously strong, her relationship to his campaign is more muddled. Bush officials said the Governor invited her on the campaign trail, and Lynne Cheney told TIME both her daughters would accept. But Mary Cheney got the feeling that the campaign wanted to say as little about her as possible, according to a friend...