Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old daughter by Actress Catherine Deneuve. Ask him about his limitations, and you get the shrug. "Perhaps I don't be so faithful," he says. "Actors make promises, and they don't keep promises. This infantile nature follows us. Whoever lives with an actor has to accept that he needs to live a little in his fantasies...
...distortion" that depicted the judge as an ultraconservative ideologue. Indeed, White House advisers say it was the President who made the decision to avoid a bloody ideological fight. "Ronald Reagan himself didn't want that to happen," says one aide. "But the right wing has never been able to accept that fact...
First Gary Hart and then Joseph Biden played themselves out of the presidential lineup because of foolish errors. Last week it was Michael Dukakis who stumbled badly. The Massachusetts Governor, whose image of rock- solid integrity has been a major selling point, had to accept the resignations of his two top aides for their part in bushwhacking the Biden candidacy. Worse, Dukakis first denied his campaign's part in undermining Biden, then revealed his aides' role, then hesitated before letting them go. His handling of the crisis made him look ill-informed and indecisive...
...matter what Patterson's motives, it is time to say that no racist remark or incident can be overlooked or dismissed. When people accept casual racial slurs, they reinforce attitudes that have no place. Such intolerable attitudes can lead to more overt and destructive racism...
...that possibility seemed more remote last week after President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia nominated M'Bow for a new term. Aides to the director-general now claim that he never promised not to accept a draft, and would serve again if elected. Though there are eleven other nominees for the job, Kaunda's endorsement carries weight: he is chairman of the Organization of African Unity, which includes 62 of UNESCO's 158 member states. The election will take place in November. Among the perks that M'Bow may be reluctant to give up: a $160,000 salary and a rent...