Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Francisco, which has a large homosexual population and an especially serious AIDS problem, response to KRON's pioneering decision has been supportive; only two of 100 viewers who called the station immediately after the announcements objected. "The public must accept certain realities about AIDS, and one of the most important is simply that condoms save lives," says Homosexual Activist Harry Britt, a member of the San Francisco board of supervisors. The Roman Catholic archdiocese lodged the strongest complaint. "America is bound and determined to make sex as casual and unsupportive as shaking hands," protests Father Miles O'Brien Riley, spokesman...
...violent, with extramural penalties held out for the wayward of every other variety. "We're all against crime," says Herbert Hoelter, director of the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives, a nonprofit group that designed Guerra's package of penalties and persuaded the judge in his case to accept them. "But we need to convince people that there are other ways to get justice...
...tube returned a few minutes later and told me that because he was empty, he had been denied entry. He said that the city would only accept half-full tubes, and only if they had been lost...
Instead of utilizing his traditional tools, the only action that will work for Reagan is one he has not tried before. To escape the shadows of Contrameinia, he has to accept responsibility for the scandal, admit to a fundamental policy error and take steps to prevent such a situation from recurring. The president must admit as JFK did after the Bay of Pigs fiasco of April, 1961, "I am the responsible officer of this government." At the date of this writing, the Administration has only admitted that "mistakes were made." Reagan has detached himself from responsibility for the deal...
...twist in The Counterlife is more confusing and shocking than the old "Alice has been dreaming" ploy, because Roth plays with the reader's fundamental desire to accept the world on the pages of the book. It somehow leaves the reader with an empty feeling to discover that Roth has published a novel written by one of his fictional characters. Yet this duality provides an insight into Roth's own mind...