Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last vestiges of a personal touch left in the University. I refer to the absence of a room lottery at Eliot House (March 19). One wonders if it is the lack of a lottery which annoys The Crimson or simply the fact that The Crimson refuses to accept anything Eliot House does in its own fashion...
...need not wholly believe either of these scenarios to accept both as rousing good stories. The first one made a nifty movie: The Manchurian Candidate. The second is the film's own tangled history: the Case of the Vanishing Thriller...
...official visit to the U.S. In the West Bank and Gaza Strip, six casualties last week raised the death toll to at least 85, as Palestinians began a fourth month of rioting. At the same time, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was being pressed to accept a new U.S. peace plan that would initiate talks this spring with an international conference, settle arrangements for Palestinian self- rule, and begin by December to negotiate a permanent end to the occupation by handing back parts of the disputed land to Arab control. Adding to Shamir's troubles as he prepared for this week...
...cash their social-security checks, blocked traffic and angrily waved their pay slips in the air. The government cashed the checks the next day at special offices, after delivering the money in heavily guarded armored cars. But ordinary shoppers were out of luck because grocery stores refused to accept checks or credit cards. While Noriega appeared to pacify soldiers by meeting the military payroll, Panama's government workers faced a cashless payday this week...
...serving the reader, say critics, is the least of Whittle's concerns. Competitors charge that Whittle's publications are nonmagazines, nothing but bound "advertorials" -- editorial copy that is designed to promote the interests and products of advertisers. Many magazines, including TIME, accept this form of advertising, but the American Society of Magazine Editors' guidelines require it to be labeled as such and clearly distinguishable in its look from the editorial text. "Whittle's whole magazine is done for the client," says American Health's Harris. "In a regular magazine the advertorial is like an island." Whittle, of course, insists that...