Word: acceptant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...become a guide through the complex world of financial services. The entry level for most of these private banks is $1 million, though in the fragmented industry you will find boutiques like Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and J.P. Morgan that require $5 million, and aggressive players like Merrill Lynch that accept as little...
...communities, from liberal Christians to conservatives Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson to Rabbi Norman Lamm, president of Yeshiva University, and Muslim leader Maher Hathout. "Hollywood got this one right," Falwell says. Evangelist Robert Schuller has even laid hands on Katzenberg and blessed him. The executive says he will gladly accept all the help he can get. If family audiences pause from their enjoyment of Paramount's Rugrats or Disney's A Bug's Life to commune with his version of one of the greatest stories ever told, then Katzenberg's prayers will truly have been answered...
...best way to get rid of excess iron is through periodic bloodletting. That usually means giving up a pint every week or two for a year, and then once every few months or so. (Unfortunately, most blood banks won't accept the donation, more as a precaution than anything else.) Menstruation may help some women, but it doesn't protect them entirely...
What is true about Monty Roberts is his ability to establish rapport with a wild, unridden horse and, within 30 minutes or so, "join up" with the animal to the extent that it will accept a saddle, bridle and rider. He observes the horse's body language and responds with his own motions to anticipate the animal's fears. Other trainers use versions of the technique. So did the hero of Nicholas Evans' weepy best-selling novel The Horse Whisperer, which later became a Robert Redford film. But though Roberts' book jacket bills him as "a real life horse whisperer...
...should not accept the extinction of species as an inevitable natural occurrence. He answers that we are not accepting it; we're inducing it. "I could argue for the economic value of preservation--the biotechnology that leads to the discovery of medicines and so forth," he says. "But if you push me to the wall, I'm for zero deforestation, zero extinction. I believe we have a moral obligation to other species. The only real reason for saving them is that it's right...