Word: acceptable
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Last week Byrd won a change in the rules that should end such stalling. To be sure, he had to accept a number of weakening amendments sponsored by Republicans. Nevertheless, the new rule gives the Senate an effective tool for eventually silencing itself. Once cloture is invoked, the total time spent on more motions and amendments on the same bill cannot exceed 100 hours...
...shortage of dock space. There's a three-to four-year waiting list at Miami's city-maintained Dinner Key Marina. Southern California's spectacularly beautiful Long Beach Marina has been booked solidly since the day it opened in 1956. Many private marina owners will not accept live-aboards because of their demands on dockside services. As a result of berth control, there is a whole subsubculture of hide-aboards, who tie up what looks like a weekend cruiser and then surreptitiously move in, lock, schlock and beer barrel...
...Congress should outline rules which a convention found unacceptable, the Supreme Court's judicial review prerogative remains a final safeguard against open conflict. The states, the convention, and Congress would almost certainly accept the Court's ruling; though many of its individual past decisions have been controversial, the Court's right to judge on constitutional issues has the weight of two centuries of tradition behind...
...letter to the Central Maine Morning Sentinel, Yates wrote "It is my belief that every person should have the fundamental right to make decisions regarding his or her own fate and to be able to accept the consequences of those decisions. The government should not have to be responsible for protecting me from myself. As long as I am the only one affected by my actions, there should be no need for the government to interfere. I judged myself capable of completing the climb and willing to accept the risk of injury or failure. Who else is as familiar...
More than 200 students from Stanford, the University of Chicago, and all the Ivy League colleges attended the four-day conference. At the final session, the delegates voted to accept the Third World Committee's criticism of the conference...