Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the Democratic platform went too far in saying that "it is undesirable to amend the U.S. Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court decision in this area." Seeking to be conciliatory, he said that he did not rule out the possibility that some anti-abortion amendment that he could accept might later be drafted. He even asked the bishops if they had any proposals. Their reply: It is not the church's business to draft legislation but to protect human life...
...major strategic problem with the teaching aids was how to handle competing interpretations of the Bible. The solution: though purchasers get identical films, the explanatory materials are offered in two editions, prepared by different sets of scholars. One version is aimed at those buyers who accept the Bible as reliable history, the other at those who accept more mythic interpretations of some biblical events. A colloquy in the liberal edition of Bible Times, for example, suggests Mesopotamian influences on the Creation story, while a discussion in the conservative edition upholds unique inspiration by the Holy Spirit...
...done a tremendous job. I just wish I had some of your talents and your tremendous organization." The two retired for a private 30-minute meeting at which they discussed the vice presidential candidates. Reagan had been deadly serious all along in his repeated vow that he would not accept the post if offered...
...privacy. "I've always believed that when you are in public life, you are entitled to a private life. When somebody asks me a question that I feel is offbase, I just say that I don't want to answer. They don't mind. They accept it. I don't blame them for trying...
Worse than all this is the movie's at tempt to make the audience accept such heavy, not to say klutzy, actors as Shaw and James Earl Jones as light-leaping, far-darting heroes. They work earnestly at trying to dance on air, but the strain shows. All that can be said is that their clumsiness matches that of the film's writing and direction. Swashbuckler sinks under its own weight like an over loaded galleon...