Word: acceptance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sarney framed the issue as a battle between developed and developing nations. It is the rich countries, he claimed, that create most of the industrial waste, acid rain and carbon dioxide that pollute the atmosphere. "We will not accept tutelage," the President declared. "We will accept responsibility for the defense of our territory." Sarney reiterated his rejection of so-called debt-for-nature swaps, in which foreign debt is forgiven in exchange for conservation efforts, as just one more way for those who covet the Amazon to meddle in Brazil's affairs...
Under the relief plan, borrowers could exchange current loans for new ones that would be smaller in principal or would pay lower interest rates. To give bankers an incentive to accept such arrangements, the IMF and the World Bank are debating whether to provide partial guarantees for some of the borrowers' interest payments...
...nightmare keeps getting worse. After responding late and ineffectively to an accident that it could have prevented, the company finally refloated the crippled tanker last week, towing it about 25 miles to nearby Naked Island for temporary repairs. But Exxon had trouble finding a dry dock that would accept the vessel. Cowper, who had cited the company's bungled attempts to manage the cleanup and called on the Coast Guard to take over, gave qualified approval to a belated offer of aid from the Bush Administration. The President remained opposed to the Government's directing the cleanup, but said...
...insidious attack on our part. It's a program problem." Bureaucracies would rather set aside the mark altogether. In Bayside, N.Y., Dana Wissner- Levy, a graduate student at Hofstra University, had to take her battle to the school president before the registrar's office agreed to accept her hyphen...
...does a nice job in his second-act apologies to Connell. Eliza Clark, who plays the brothers' mother, makes her inevitable appearance late in the second act. Her deadpan senility (She has come from Alaska to the oppressive Midwestern heat without removing her winter coat) is difficult to accept, but she wisely remains in the background during the fascinating resolution of the brothers' conflict...