Word: acceptant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...definitely approach music like an athlete," says Schutt. "I won't accept mediocrity, I won't be happy with anything less than the best...
...that sometimes one feels that the only way to get the help needed to live is to express and communicate a wish to die.) There may be times when suicide is seen as an appropriate death, but it is most often the result of an inability to consider and accept alternative options...
...final thought, there are also times when one comes to accept alternatives to suicide by developing a new and caring relationship with oneself. Bertrand Russell in his autobiography recalled that "there was a foot path leading across the fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics." Randolph Catlin was chief of the Mental Health Service at University Health Services until...
...same thing happen again? The first test will come when OPEC decides the allocation of production cuts among 10 of its members. Saudi Arabia alone seems prepared to accept reductions of 500,000 bbl. a day in output. But that still leaves 1.5 million bbl. in reduced production and revenues to divvy up among the other members. Many of them, including Iran, Indonesia, Nigeria and Venezuela, are in much greater need of cash than even the Saudis. "I don't like to project what is going to happen," Saudi oil czar Naimi told TIME last week. "But I believe...
BACK IN BUSINESS Some small-cap mutual funds that closed their doors when a surfeit of money made them hard to manage are open again--if you're game. Last week Fidelity said its Small Cap Stock and Low-Priced Stock funds will accept new investors, mostly because shareholders have been fleeing. Low-Priced's assets dropped from $12 billion to $7.8 billion in the past year. Small-cap stocks were hammered in general, making them something of a bargain...