Word: acceptible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speech by Israel's Chaim Herzog. In his address, Abdel Meguid had said, "Let us have a fifth battle for peace," referring to four previous wars between Israel and the Arabs that left 10,010 Israelis dead and 28,824 on the Arab sides. Echoed Herzog: "We accept the challenge. We are prepared to set out on what we trust will be the fifth and final struggle, the struggle for peace...
Carter has been criticized unduly for the way he has revised the vocabulary of the dispute. Israelis and their supporters in the U.S. have been especially incensed by his repeated use of the phrase "legitimate rights of the Palestinian people." Carter chose not to accept the standing taboo on the term, which, as used by many Arabs, is a code word for the creation of an independent Palestinian state bent on the destruction of Israel. He recognized that it was sad testimony to the rarefied and hopeless level of the Middle East debate if he were prohibited from saying that...
...screens across the country. Twelve hundred other theaters are now under contract, and Screenvision plans to expand the time slot for commercials to three minutes. A U.S. company, Cinemavision, claims to have signed up another 4,200 theaters for next year. If all 16,000 theaters in the country accept the idea of three minutes of ads, the two firms figure they have potential sales of well over $50 million a year, based on a charge of $17 to $24 for each minute seen by 1,000 people. Europeans, they note, scarcely blink at ten minutes of commercials between flicks...
...public off movies in general and crowd out their own trailers for upcoming films. But theater owners, who have been hurt by rising costs, say the ads will hold down ticket prices. They stand to get up to three-quarters of the loot, and they say they will happily accept commercials-if the public does not protest. "No audience reaction would be favorable audience reaction," says Larry Gleason, executive vice president of the Mann chain, which has 300 houses in 26 states. It sounds like an invitation, doesn...
...above the Vatican that marks the election of a new Pope, the wisps coming out of Yale Professor Emeritus Edgar Boell's chimney lately have been signaling the imminent end of Yale's seven-month search for a successor to Kingman Brewster, who resigned last April to accept the ambassadorship to the Court of St. James's. Last week William Bundy, chairman of the corporation's eight-member presidential search committee, announced that the list of candidates to be Yale's 18th president-once as high as 400-had been narrowed to ten finalists. Early...