Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says space has become a factor in deciding whether to solicit and accept new collections. "Now that we're well enough known that people come to us with material, we have to be more selective than we used to be. We're acutely aware of space problems, and often have to direct the collections elsewhere," she comments. However, she adds, the library has not become crowded enough to necessitate another building...
President Carter will soon appoint a commission to accept nominations of candidates, Southwick said. "It's a matter of applying. People who are interested will apply, and we will ask him [Cox] to apply, he added...
...objectively wrong? With political change as a value, of course one rejects beliefs like, "The best thing a man can do for his fellows is to achieve enlightenment" or "Everything is interconnected, the good with the bad, how can you change anything in the universe or in man. Accept the world as it is, here and now." But while rejecting such beliefs for causing people to look inward, one must realize the rejection is based on one's own set of values and beliefs, which are no more right or wrong than those under attack...
...Women who are reaching for the executive suite are going to have to accept ... the financial responsibilities of their new status," Tish writes. Still she gets rather squeamish, for a feminist, about the way a woman should pay the check after a business lunch: If she uses a credit card or signs for the tab, she should do so "quietly, no one around them need be aware of her actions." Still more surreptitious is the course she advises for a woman when she senses that the man is uncomfortable about her paying: "She should excuse herself at dessert time...
Stallone did not give Assante any room to develop the potential conflicts within Lenny--between his desire to make money and his unwillingness to take advantage of Victor, between his need for love and his inability to accept it. Instead we see an awkward transformation of a sensitive and tortured character into an unfeeling money-grubber...