Word: acceptant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, the institutional problems. Although the suicide rate at Harvard has remained fairly constant over the last 15 years, the temptation to accept its occurrence as inevitable is wrong. The statistics do not prove Harvard's success in preventing further suicides but rather its failure in reducing them...
...their college years. According to the National Institutes of Mental Health, about 25 percent of all women and ten percent of all men will suffer from depression. But bravado makes us unwilling to acknowledge that. Consequently, students becomes less willing to share personal failures and listeners less willing to accept them...
...already the allies seemed to be adjusting their attacks to help take pressure off Kosovo. NATO, which had planned for a "pause" between the first two phases of the campaign, decided instead to roll smoothly into new attacks. Officials had hoped that Milosevic would accept a cease-fire after the initial bombings, but his strike into Kosovo--which was widely anticipated inside the U.S. intelligence community--seemed as clear a gesture of defiance as the three-fingered Serb salute his thugs were waving to photographers in Belgrade...
...Whatever the shape of an eventual settlement, the only given is that the Rambouillet peace deal, whose failure precipitated current bombing campaign, is dead. The ethnic Albanians can't be expected to accept remaining under Serb rule, and the Serbs haven't yet been militarily persuaded to relinquish their control over any part of the province. Thus as NATO develops ideas about creating a protected enclave in Kosovo and the Serbs continue to depopulate predominantly ethnic Albanian areas, the two sides could find themselves moving toward some form of compromise. Thursday's talks between Milosevic and moderate ethnic Albanian leader...
...definitely approach music like an athlete," says Schutt. "I won't accept mediocrity, I won't be happy with anything less than the best...