Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...priority purposes; lower rates on, and smaller reserves behind, high-priority loans, such as those to finance housing or small business. Conditions, of course, were different then, and Miller was not talking last week about whether he feels the same way now. He interrupted a Bahamas vacation to accept Carter's selection, made some remarks about the importance of a strong dollar that sounded staunchly conservative, and then flew back to the Bahamas...
...little-known Saudis has volunteered to start digging Bert Lance out from under his mountain of debts. Ghaith Pharaon, 37, has offered to buy 60% of the stock in Lance's National Bank of Georgia for $20 a share, or about $4 above market value. Whether other stockholders accept or not, Lance will turn over 60% of his 200,000-odd shares to Pharaon and get a check for about $2.4 million...
...bedroom ceiling nowadays often reflects a man reading poetry (Eliot and Frost, among others) and sipping a Tab. He is also a serious, intelligent student of film?old, exotic and by competitors. He will still shower gifts on his friends?though he admits he does not know how to accept them, or compliments, in return. Of course, he will still fill an actress's dressing room with flowers, or an actor's with a favorite libation, on the first day of shooting, but the flash of his character is dimmed these days...
...make others believe them. Director Steven Spielberg effectively makes the point early in the film that no one could possibly know whether a self-proclaimed UFO sighter was crying wolf or actually saw the real thing. This maneuver is designed to spur on your imagination and prepare you to accept the fantastical scenes coming...
...kinds of foreign events: the war in Indochina, the Middle East, the coup in Chile, ad nauseum. And no one would ever know what really happened. After all, if the CIA could bribe the Nieman Foundation--as it did during the '50s, when it persuaded the then curator to accept a Japanese journalist then in the employ of the intelligence agency--it has probably been able to bribe just about anyone in the media...