Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charity meals, Amex provided postage-paid envelopes for donations using check or charge. During the month of November, the company expects to collect more than 1.6 million three-penny chit donations, enough for 10,000 meals-on- wheels, at the more than 3,500 New York City restaurants that accept its green, gold and platinum cards...
...Boesky. On Nov. 14 the Securities and Exchange Commission electrified the financial world with news that Boesky, 49, one of America's richest and savviest stock-market speculators, had been caught in an ongoing insider-trading probe. Boesky had agreed to pay $100 million in penalties, return profits and accept eventual banishment from professional stock trading for life for his alleged wrongdoings. He also faces a single, as yet unspecified, criminal charge, which could lead to a five-year prison term...
...aging baby-boomer executives to fitness freaks who are intent on looking their best. "Most people who have the treatments are in their late 30s to 50s and are still very active," says Dr. Henry Roenigk, chairman of dermatology at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital. "People used to accept aging, but today they just don't want to look old. The fact is, however, collagen doesn't last forever...
...that we know this, it helps explain our earlier findings. You might say that exposure to pheromones is the essence of sex." Cutler is braced for an attack on her findings from gays and lesbians. She observes, in what may be the understatement of the year, "They may not accept this...
...think it was a mistake to introduce any element of arms transfers into it." Indeed, the Post account had him advising Reagan in a bedside conference at Bethesda Naval Hospital in July 1985, when the President was recuperating from colon surgery, that it would be "wrong and unwise" to accept an Israeli suggestion that arms be traded for hostages. Reagan reportedly agreed...