Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to tell people we think differently. We are going to show people we think differently," Dershowitz said. "None of us are going to sit back and accept others' opinions. We are going to challenge others' points of view...
...members of the media, we already set limits on advertising, and in the past, we have, in fact, chosen not to run advertisements because we found them offensive to women and because they represented a contribution to a social discourse from which we could not, in all good conscience, accept money...
Most insidious, however, is the advertisement's deceptive attempt to ignore the deeply political issue of union busting that would be required to fly Eastern's $29 shuttle. Lorenzo would have us ignore the ethical issues surrounding the labor-management struggle. He encourages us to accept the advertisement outside of a social and political context--something we, and the strikers, cannot afford...
...format to accommodate subjects as bleak as copycat suicides and killer peer pressure. Heathers finds laughs in these maladies without making fun of them because Waters writes from inside teenagers. He knows what makes them miserable and what makes them bad: that they are already adults but can't accept the fact. "Why are you such a megabitch?" Veronica asks a surviving Heather, and the reply is, "Because I can be." Heathers locates the emotional totalitarianism lurking in a prom queen's heart. If Michael Lehmann's direction were a bit more astute, the movie could be the classic genre...
Responding to the criticism, headmaster Burns said last week that the school's handling of Rogers "may have been . . . in retrospective, not the best." Rogers was offered a new contract for the next school year, but she has yet to accept the deal, partly because it makes her return to the campus contingent on a "substantial" determination by the Naval Investigative Service, the FBI and the San Diego police that she does not pose a security threat. "Does Sharon feel betrayed? I think she does," says a friend. "Twelve years of her life she's given to that school...