Word: acceptibility
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...poverty and misery in Haiti are so astounding that the argument to accept Haitian refugees could be made on humanitarian grounds alone. The country's economic structure has collapsed. It has no major industries, leading to an unemployment rate listed between 70 and 85 percent, according to a report two months ago by the New Orleans Times-Picayune...
...suddenly balked. The neutral safe house would have to be around Washington, she said, not Miami. Even if he could get the family and the lawyers to agree, he was worried about the Cuban-American leaders. "They couldn't wake everyone up to ask them if they would accept moving the safe house to outside of Florida," he says. "I had the Attorney General on hold while I was talking to [family lawyer] Manny Diaz. And then he says, 'Wait a minute. Here come the marshals...
...experience had enriched his understanding, and, as he writes in his new book, Still Here, "it gave me an encounter with a kind of physical suffering that often accompanies aging." Had it happened when he was young, he says, he would have been thrown into turmoil. "I can accept more now because I have a model of reality...
...voluntary" confessions to be used in court even if suspects had not been read their Miranda rights. The original ruling, he argues, was a "provisional, interim judgment" to allow Congress to consider other appropriate alternatives. However, even judges who have been critical of Miranda find that argument difficult to accept. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, a conservative who has expressed distaste for the ruling in the past, seemed to acknowledge that Miranda is constitutionally necessary...
...arms control agreements by the Clinton administration, while presumptive Republican presidential nominee George Bush said he'd reject any agreement that bound the hands of the next president from cutting his own deal, and also vowed to scrap the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty if Russian failed to accept amendments that would allow Washington to build its politically popular "Star Wars" national missile defense system...