Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...view the General Secretary as the event's big winner. "Gorbachev has proved to be an outstanding political tactician," said Eberhard Schulz, a specialist on Soviet affairs at West Germany's Foreign Policy Research Institute. "When it became evident in January 1987 that the Central Committee would not accept some of his changes, he stepped back and organized a party conference to get them through." Even so, most analysts warned that Gorbachev's success in winning institutional reform only underscored the largely unmet challenges of economic perestroika (restructuring). The conference featured several speeches by delegates complaining about the inadequacy...
...unsuccessful writers the postal service mostly outputs despair: rejection slips and royalty statements showing negative balances. For literature's grandees it mainly offers worldly delights: invitations to accept honorary degrees, chair a grant-giving panel or cash a nice subsidiary-rights check. The more typical professional writer, however, earns neither pity nor envy -- just a modest living, neither more perilously nor more glamorously obtained than anyone else's. For him, the postman's bag is ever a hilariously mixed...
Bush did not dwell on details of the event in his 30-minute address, but defended the U.S. presence in the gulf and the decision of the ship's captain. He urged Iran and Iraq to accept a year-old, U.N. cease-fire resolution immediately...
...scheduled United NationsSecurity Council debate on the incident, theadministration said ultimate responsibility restswith "those who refuse to end" the Iran-Iraq war,especially Iran "which has refused for almost ayear to accept and implement Security CouncilResolution 598, while it continues unprovokedattacks on innocent neutral shipping and crews inthe international waters of the gulf...
Mainstream American museums have only just begun to accept that in contemporary American culture, there are many houses. Even today this recognition is not shared by everyone. But the situation has certainly improved since 1969, when New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art mounted its hideously condescending exhibition "Harlem on My Mind." Back then the Met confidently declared that spending $5,544,000 on Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, his dark-skinned assistant of presumed Moorish ancestry, would improve the self-esteem of the museum's black and Hispanic public...