Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ulster's Protestants, however, have rejected all previous proposals for sharing power with the Catholic minority. They will probably refuse to accept even an emergency coalition out of fear that Britain would try to convert it into a permanent power-sharing settlement. If Westminster does not accept the Protestants' rejection of power-sharing, warned Vanguard Party official Ernest Baird, it must face the "inevitable consequences of a final conflict...
...week's end both sides remained adamant. It seemed probable that unless the doctors showed a willingness to accept some of the social-responsibility provisions demanded by Brown in a malpractice-insurance reform bill, the legislation had little chance of passage and the slowdown would...
...reminiscences. Bergman, who still needs nearly an hour-long makeup job to affect the wrinkled look, says the contessa "is just the opposite of my own character because she is destroying herself by dreams of her youth." She adds, "I don't dream about my past. I accept my age and make the best...
Cancer Risk. Precedent is on their side. Since 1944 the U.S. has honored bilateral agreements to accept airworthiness certificates awarded to foreign aircraft by their governments-as long as the planes meet standards established by the International Convention on Civil Aviation. In recent years, the French and British have accepted American evaluations of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar without argument. Now they clearly expect the U.S. to do the same with the Concorde, which has undergone more than 5,000 hours of exhaustive flight testing and has been certified...
...question of his being worthy of it; he possesses a certain animal-like attractiveness, especially when encased in the full dress uniform of a Victorian Hussar, but Adele's choice of him as a love-object is simply a given, the story's sine qua non. Once you accept it, the rest of the film follows. And, indeed, the choice has been made before the flim begins--it opens with Adele leaving her home to follow Pinson across the Atlantic to Halifax, (Nova Scotia) already aware of the hopelessness of her love. Truffaut doesn't delve into the really interesting...