Word: acceptance
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...children and parents in our program (like those in the Keylatch program) realized something The Crimson's reporters seem unable to accept: there is no way for a PBHA counselor to prevent every accident from occurring; we can only try to minimize their likelihood and the harm of their consequences. We are not all-powerful or infallible. The Crimson is the only paper which insists on belaboring the unfortunate accidents PBH has been involved in this summer, and their unwillingness to allow fellow students to do their work unscandalized is inexplicable. At a time when Oliver North is an American...
Meese's inability to recall details of crucial meetings and conversations that took place while the scandal was breaking failed to sway some members of the committee. When Maine Senator George Mitchell, a Democrat, said he found some of the Attorney General's statements "very difficult to accept," Meese came close to losing his temper. "What I have told you is the absolute truth of what happened," he said, "and so if there's any question in your mind, I want to get that settled right now." Mitchell shrugged and retorted, "I just said it's hard to accept...
...violence in Colombo's streets indicated, Jayewardene still faces serious obstacles in persuading the Sinhalese majority to accept the pact. On the day of the signing, the government declared a curfew in the capital and deployed soldiers to keep demonstrators from approaching the presidential residence. Senior police and military officers also had their hands full trying to keep their own unhappy forces in line. Said an enlisted man: "I have been wearing this uniform for four days. But what use is it? I am unable to support my own people." Obviously, though, dissent was not far from the surface...
Like other cities you mention in your article "Trapped Behind the Wheel," my former hometown, Washington, suffers from horrendous traffic jams ((LIVING, July 20)). The alternatives you offer commuters are to accept the situation or fight it with little chance of success. My advice: move to a small town. In my new hometown, Albion, Mich. (population approximately 10,000), a traffic jam occurs only when a train goes through, and even then the traffic is cleared in five minutes...
Gorbachev's ploy: agreeing to accept a long-standing American preference for the elimination by both sides of all intermediate- and shorter-range missiles in Asia as well as Europe. Ironically, that arrangement -- known in the arcane lingo of arms control as "global double zero" -- was first put forward by U.S. negotiators six years...