Word: acceptibility
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...nearly $10 billion. It has little hope of ever repaying, but it has always managed to convince a trio of lenders?UFJ, Sumitomo Mitsui Bank and Mizuho Holdings?to extend additional credit at crucial moments in order to keep it alive. UFJ is urging Daiei's management to accept assistance from the Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan (IRCJ), a state-backed bank designed to overhaul Japan's most hapless companies. Meanwhile, U.S. retailing juggernaut Wal-Mart, which already owns 38% of Japanese retailer Seiyu and is looking for a greater presence in the country, has met with the IRCJ...
...stadium unveiled in 1896 for Athens' first modern Olympics, it was impossible not to be taken aback by her almost imperceptible pace. More than an hour had passed since Japan's Mizuki Noguchi, a 40-kg wisp, had fluttered into the stadium, vomited and smoothed back her hair to accept the gold with a time of 2:26:20. Even earlier, 16 competitors, including British world-record holder Paula Radcliffe, had left the historic town of Marathon, only to abandon the race because of the brutal hills and 35?C heat. (A few days later, Radcliffe would also fail...
...information to terrorists." But the deployment is controversial domestically and the voluntary gag helps prevent the issue from becoming an even larger political football. "This is very close to media censorship," says Park Tae Jeon, editor in chief of Pressian, a popular online news site that has refused to accept restrictions. "If we go along with it, we won't be able to inform the public if unfortunate things happen to our troops." In reality, that's less likely in Kurdish-controlled Arbil, which is far from the chaos in southern Iraq...
There are so many things I can relate to. But she grew up in the '30s and '40s, and to play classical music and be black was very, very difficult. I understand how it feels when you're trying to find your place and nobody wants to accept you. Also, I'm a sucker for period pieces...
...even that arrangement won't keep the peace for the angriest exes. Some parents never accept the fifty-fifty split and appeal endlessly to the courts for modifications, says Candice Komar, a family-law attorney in Pittsburgh. "They'll say it's in the best interest of the child to change the custody arrangement," she says. "But the truth is, often it's because joint custody is driving these parents crazy. I've had people consult me because they fight over whether their child wears a spring coat or a winter coat--and I'm not kidding...