Word: acceptibility
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...does his father, who is blind in other ways. For him, Mohammad is only a burden. He wants to get married again and fears that his fiance's family will not accept a blind child as part of the dowry. He exiles the boy, then retrieves him in a journey that sends them tumbling through violent rapids toward a fatal climax...
...redesigning of America is not likely to stop with the objects highlighted in your cover story [DESIGN, March 20]. The consumer will have to remodel the kitchen to accept new gadgets. We'll have to reinvent a nail for the elegant hammer and prepare attractive trash for the see-through wastebasket. We architects designed buildings based on such concepts as "form follows function," "organic architecture" and "less is more." Now industrial designers are coining terms like "blobjects," "commodity chic" and "cutensils" by creating items to match. Kudos to them. CLEMENT R. PRABAKARAN Sterling Heights, Mich...
...tanker pending tests to establish the origin of the oil on board, prompting a furious reaction from Moscow. The incident came the same day as Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov castigated a decision by European Union member states to suspend Russia from the Council of Europe for its refusal to accept independent investigation of human rights violations in Chechnya...
...federal politicians - to seek redress against powerful special interests. It also explains why the Washington lobbyists would want to spread their gospel beyond the Beltway. "The judge will always instruct the jury that they're only to base their judgment on the facts of this case and not accept any outside influence," says TIME legal analyst Alain Sanders. "But jurors are people, and it would be foolish to assume they're not influenced by the world around them. And that could include an intense lobbying effort by the tobacco companies...
...some people seem to take it as a God-given fact that anyone who eats anything that looks like the original animal or comes from an 'unclean' part is committing an abomination. Far be it from me to dictate what anyone should eat; still, if I'm willing to accept that some people eat foods which I wouldn't touch with a spoon (hello, broccoli!) and don't consider them filthy people, I don't think my love for offal should provoke disgust...