Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...played by Emmanuelle Riva. For her, the bombing of Hiroshima was a dreadful example of man's mistreatment of man. It should be unforgettable to everyone. But unfortunately, owing to the elusive disposition of human memory, it isn't. Her solution at film's end: stop worrying about it, accept the affection of Eiji Okada (who has been having as much mnemonic trouble as she) and start...
Some observers feel that none of this is quite real; that pockets of anti-intellectualism remain, especially in the West and South, and that even when people respect the intellectual they do not necessarily accept his ideas. The fact is, however, that for some time now the U.S. has not been a place that intellectuals flee from, but a place they flee to. Britain's C. P. Snow has summed it up: "During the past 20 years, the U.S. has done something like 80% of the science and scholarship of the entire Western world." Chicago Economist George Stigler guesses...
...this should be so, the doctors are not sure. It is known that patients with advanced cancer have little or no capacity for rejecting foreign tissue, and this makes it easier for them to accept transplants. Now the doctors suggest in the medical journal Transplantation that the converse may also be true: cancer victims' tissues, even from healthy parts of the body, may lack certain antigens involved in the rejection mechanism, making them an unexpectedly good source of transplants...
...Roberto Campos and Texas Economist Benjamin Higgins, a special adviser to the Brazilian government, heard several businessmen say that they would agree to curb prices if, in return, they could get a promise of government "fiscal and credit incentives." Higgins went for the anti-inflation plan, persuaded Campos to accept it. More than 750 companies have already volunteered to abide by it, including nearly all the auto, cement, drug and steel manufacturers...
...Even if it works, the credulity with which American accept what Johnson tells them will diminish. To say one week that troops are being sent to protect American lives, the next week that they are there to fight Communist rebels, and the week after that the rebels are not Communists, might work in a totalitarian state. But it will not work indefinitely...