Word: acceptibility
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...less than a year from death row to the vice presidency - it symbolized the ineptitude of international efforts to stop the war in Sierra Leone. Sankoh may well have been tempted to pinch himself last summer when he received a phone call from President Clinton urging him to accept a peace deal that Reverend Jesse Jackson had spent days cajoling him to sign. And it was a pretty sweet deal for a man who'd been bound for the firing squad a few short months earlier: Clinton and Jackson were urging a war criminal to agree to order...
...doesn't accept the obstacles that could continually present themselves to her. And she has incredible insight into how to form an organization," Young concludes...
Vieques protests, like that in Boston last weekend (News, May 8),.represent the thoughts of a noisy but microscopic minority of just 4 percent of Puerto Rico residents. The majority accept the hard-fought arrangement negotiated by Governor Rosell and President Clinton for the eventual exit of the Navy in 3 years...
...teammates better. That's a very hard thing to do in our sport; it's easier to think about something like that happening in basketball or hockey. But if you were on Dave's side, you knew that he expected a certain amount of you, that he wouldn't accept anything less...
...said, got said. A lot. "I endorse Governor Bush, I endorse Governor Bush, I endorse Governor Bush, I endorse Governor Bush, I endorse Governor Bush, I endorse Governor Bush," surrendered McCain in a wry singsong after a quote-seeking reporter made him use the E-word. "And I enthusiastically accept," said an overshadowed Bush from over McCain's shoulder, a little too loudly, maybe making a mental note to be a little more McCain-like with these reporter types from now on. Bush had brought along his cowboy grin, but it had a forced quality; he seemed painfully aware that...