Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women really sitting on opposite ends of the see-saw, such that every gain that a woman gets...means a loss for a man?" Horner asked. "[We are] equally unable to accept differences between us or our growing interdependence with one another...
...student, David Bruce, 25, took his case to court, becoming the first draftee to argue that he could not enter the army because it upheld an illegal racist system. Bruce was sentenced to six years. Two weeks later, 142 university graduates and students declared that they would refuse to accept induction or, if they had already served their initial two years, to report for further active duty. The End Conscription Campaign, which advocates working in hospitals and performing other types of community service as alternatives to enlisting in the military, did not sponsor the mass act of defiance. Vlok blamed...
...Cathy Weaver (Winger), an FBI agent sent into the farm belt to investigate an armed conspiracy of the crackpot right. She falls in with, and then in love with, Gary (Tom Berenger), the man of her darkest dreams. For such a paranoid gent, he is pretty quick to accept Cathy. Before you can say "George Lincoln Rockwell," he has invited her to a "coon hunt" -- ten white men having fatal sport with one innocent black. Before you can mutter "Zionist Occupation Government," he has taken her on dates to a paramilitary campground, a bank robbery and a political assassination. (Guess...
...gave sanctuary, training and arms to Afghan resistance fighters. Though many Pakistanis opposed aiding the rebels, Pentagon officials are convinced that General Baig and his senior military staff know where their interests lie. "The geopolitical realities remain even if Zia is gone," said a Defense Department official. "Pakistan cannot accept a Soviet-dominated Afghanistan on one border and India on the other." Those who consider Pakistan an ally can only hope that Zia's successor believes as fervently in those realities...
Where rent-a-judge trials are appealable, those involved contend that only about 5% to 10% of such cases are taken to a higher court. Because both sides have chosen the judge, "it is hard, even for the losing party, not to accept the decision," says William Polkinghorn, senior counsel for Bank of America, who takes part in about half a dozen such proceedings each year. Though popular first in contract and labor disputes, rent-a-judging has spread to malpractice, family law and other areas: 70% of Judicate's caseload involves personal-injury suits...