Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Against the backdrop of Ireland's longstanding neutrality in the East-West military confrontation, Gorbachev said it was time "to set our common European house in order," accept the realities of being divided into separate economic and military blocs and "play a key role in putting international relations on a new level...
...source said, however, that Abraham had refused to accept the presidency. Abraham was foreign minister under the government of Lt. Gen. Henri Namphy, whom Avril replaced...
...Saturday afternoon, Henderson joins another Atlanta image consultant, Susan Bixler, in a corporate presentation. It is an afternoon of admonitions: "Don't buy a shirt that's whiter than your teeth . . . Do not purchase 100% linen for business because you will look like an unmade bed by 10 a.m. . . . Accept baldness . . . Don't try to wrap your hair around your head and spray it in place like a helmet...
Critics of the Mommy Track fear that employers might accept the notion that it is a bad investment to groom working mothers for high-level jobs. In fact, such corporations as Corning Glass and Merck have found that the costly career-track disruptions of parenthood can be reduced when companies help their employees balance the demands of work and family life. Thus the emergence of a formal Mommy Track strikes many people as archaic, especially at a time when companies are offering working parents a helping hand in the form of flextime, parental leave, day care and other programs...
...years, starting in 1984, when her daughter Jacqueline was one year old. After Day resumed her full-time duties in 1986, she was promoted to partner. Says Day: "If the Mommy Track becomes a slower track for certain periods in your career, well, I am willing to accept that. What I am not willing to accept is that it totally turns off my options later to get back on track...