Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article or news report about Ted Bundy always included Caryn's name and the fact that 'her nude and frozen body was found in a snowbank,' " wrote her sister, Nancy McDonald, in a letter published in the Detroit News last week. "It's been extremely difficult for us to accept Caryn's loss and the way her body was found, but we, her family, did not need to hear, see and read the same fact for 14 years...
...Secretary of the Treasury to deal with Third World debt and not significantly affect the fortunes of Chemical Bank, and there is no way for a Secretary of State to steer completely clear of the issue. Harvard economist Jeffrey Sachs pointed out last week that after Baker refused to accept a Brazilian proposal that would have forced American banks to write down billions of dollars in debt in 1987, Chemical's stock rose nearly 40% in six months...
...University decides to accept its responsibility in making the Science Center safer, which it must, it will still only have begun to solve a campus-wide problem. Security must be a priority not only at the Science Center, but all over the University...
Billy succeeds because he perceives the moral code that motivates the gang. The toughs, Bathgate notes, operate under a "pure inverted premise" of crime as a lifestyle, under which conventional morality still lurks. And although Billy does not accept this philosophy, "it was the premise I had to work...
When the government learned of de Sousa Mendes' insubordination, it recalled him. It also ordered its border officials not to accept visas issued at Bordeaux...