Word: acceptible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Firsthand View of Living and Working in China follows in that tradition, with one major difference. Schell, 37, has studied China for years, with several scholarly works on the subject to his credit. He also speaks fluent Chinese. That background informs his tale, and it is much easier to accept his conclusions than those of most China visitors...
...phrase also conveys "an excellent sexual connotation" since sexual curiousity impels one to take a chance and accept a blind date. But Kosinski twists the sexual implications of a blind date in his book, using the term to describe a rape technique Levanter learns as a teenager...
...smaller nations that trade with it. In the end, the African members settled for a permanent arms embargo. The Western members had wanted a six-month cutoff provision in the measure, to give the South Africans an inducement to ease up on apartheid and repression, but they decided to accept the permanent embargo. "This will assuage us," remarked Ghana's ambassador, Frank Boaten, "but only for a while...
...this week's selections, well, it's hard to accept the fact that this is it. After tomorrow it's over. Some of us -- my brother, for instance, who's been prelaw since the age of four -- have a future to look forward to, but as for me, it's hard to go anywhere when the highlight of your resume is the Leo de Lion Award. Especially when your career prediction records will be just...
WITH ITS SUDDEN, COMPREHENSIVE CRACKDOWN on moderate black and interracial organizations and press three weeks ago, South Africa's white minority regime has made it more than clear that it is not about to reform its apartheid policy in any meaningful way, let alone accept any move toward a black majority government in the future. Last month's wave of repression was the harshest and widest-ranging since the early '60s: the regime banned 18--or virtually all--of the country's black organizations and shut down South Africa's leading black newspapers, thus openly betraying its claim that South...