Word: accepter
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...very disappointed with TIME's cover. I am so tired of people trying to force us all to accept homosexuality. It is really sad that you can't read a magazine, watch television or go to a movie without finding some form of homosexual innuendo. What is the deal? Are there no longer any morals? At what point will America stand up and say, No more...
...instance, there was the bitter strike of Hollywood screenwriters, partly over the studios' insistence that the writers accept a rollback of the rerun payments called residuals. Studio executives were saying writers had to make some sacrifices in the leaner economic conditions the industry was facing. Then, in an article in the New Yorker, Joan Didion pointed out that the total received in residuals by all 9,000 members of the Writers Guild was $58 million and that Eisner's 1987 compensation was an estimated $63 million...
Julie Christie doesn't like Shakespeare. So when Kenneth Branagh wanted her for his lush new Hamlet, she was disinclined to accept. "I just find Gertrude such a weird part. And I didn't know if I wanted to get into all that emotionalizing," says the actress whose cool presence lit up classic films like Dr. Zhivago and McCabe & Mrs. Miller but who hasn't been seen much onscreen since the '60s and early '70s. Friends changed her mind about Gertrude. "I'm ever so glad they did," she says...
...many other student groups aggressively pursue sponsorship deals with companies like Daimler-Chrysler, Morgan Stanley, and Puma, holding events off-campus, where they say Harvard officials can claim no jurisdiction. None of these groups have been scrutinized by the College.According to the Student Organizations Handbook, a student group may accept cash and gifts from a sponsor. And as long as the display isn’t ostentatious, they can acknowledge the company’s contributions and display their affiliation with it publicly. The student group cannot hang advertising banners from Harvard buildings or officially endorse their sponsor?...
...More emphasis should be placed on making existing advancements available to everyone than on making new discoveries, he said. “Millions of Americans do not have access to the state-of-the-art technologies that already exist,” he said. Olden argued that if Americans accept communal police, fire, education, and transportation services, they should be able to agree to universal health care as well. In his view, the U.S. can achieve a universal system that still leaves people with choice by organizing a national regulatory body to set standards of care available for all. Citizens...