Word: acceptant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This summer the Hale family moved to a 300-acre development in Chapel Hill, N.C., called Southern Village. Here, as in other neotraditional neighborhoods, residents accept smaller lots than they might find elsewhere, in return for shared amenities like parks and day care, and a livable scale to things. Conveniences like a dry cleaner and cafe are but a stroll away in the village center. Southern Village's public elementary school sports a columned red brick facade and gabled roof. The homes, built in a variety of styles, from Charleston single to Georgian town house, have porches reaching...
...cheers and shudders. Any movie that scares up business is considered good for the rest of the industry. But this one became a hit by breaking too many rules. No-star indie films usually make money with charm and sentiment; Blair Witch has neither. So the mass audience will accept something strident, elliptical, confrontational--what next? The movie was shot with its actors' being put through an eight-day survival game. They shot the film and made up the dialogue while the directors lurked out of sight and played sneaky tricks on them. Don't let James Cameron hear about...
...loss of one family member is hard enough to accept; to have to deal with the simultaneous deaths of three is beyond comprehension. Like so many other South Africans, I felt the Kennedy family was a part of my childhood, my teenage years and now my adult life. I have the greatest admiration for their strength of character, their determination, and above all, their kindness to those less fortunate. John Jr. typified the clan. The Kennedys can all lift their heads in pride and say, "Here was a man." VICKY SCHOEMAN Cradock, South Africa...
...applying codes of conduct." Consistent standards could be upheld, of course, by the proposed International Criminal Court of Justice currently under discussion in the U.N., which would create a permanent, independent war crimes tribunal. That would be if the U.N. could persuade Russia, China and the U.S. to accept the creation of such a court...
With the referee staying out of the ring, the Palestinians may have no choice but to accept Israel?s timetable for implementing the Wye land-for-peace accord. Negotiators from the two sides met Wednesday to finalize a timetable for completing Israeli withdrawal from the 13.1 percent of the West Bank envisaged by Wye, after Secretary of State Madeleine Albright postponed her visit to the region ? at Israel?s request. "Naturally the Palestinians were very unhappy about Albright?s decision, because they wanted her to come and get in the middle," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "While...