Word: acceptance
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That makes it even harder to accept that more than three decades later, roughly one-fourth of the material remains unpublished. Originally the informal target date for publishing transcriptions of all the scrolls was 1970. Now, responding to mounting pressures, the 18 scholars on the official scrolls team have given the Israeli government a timetable calling for publication of the remaining materials by 1997. This year Israel's antiquities department set up a committee to monitor progress. The new timetable, however, has only inflamed the critics...
...fact that we feel we have a certain right to do that, because nobody is forcing American employers to give Mexican workers a job, and a lot of Mexican immigrants do jobs that Americans would not do, at a lower wage and under conditions that Americans would not accept...
...Mexican accord is the first concrete result of U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady's four-month campaign to break the impasse on Third World debt by persuading commercial banks to accept some cuts in the principal or interest rates of their loans. Brady's predecessor, James Baker, whose 1985 debt plan provided for no such relief, had failed to ease the problem. With the Mexican accord in hand, Brady hopes that similar agreements between the banks and other developing countries may soon be worked...
Mozart wanted even his darkest operas to end with the characters reconciled and order restored, and so he followed the fiery disappearance of Don Giovanni with a cheery little sextet in which the survivors tell everyone to mend his ways. Sellars' contemporary sensibility seems unable to accept such a stylized ending, and so he attributes the sextet not to the survivors of the disaster but to the suffering ghosts of those same survivors...
...told Jaruzelski that he seemed closer to Gorbachev than any of the other leaders," Bush related. "Jaruzelski smiled and said that was probably so. He told me that he had just talked to Gorbachev before our meeting. Jaruzelski now is more willing to speak out, has more confidence to accept different opinions...