Word: accepting
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...rates. If he is not successful on these fronts, the city will be forced to take other measures. Among the possibilities: increasing various city taxes, raising the subway fare from 350 and charging tuition at city colleges. Last week Beame bluntly told New Yorkers that they will have to accept reduced services or higher taxes - or, more likely, both. "You can't pay bills without money," he said. "The city is no different from the home...
...there is a silver lining somewhere in the clouds over New York, it may be that the city's financial problems have become so serious that civil servants and other New Yorkers are willing to accept sacrifices that should have been made years ago. Otherwise the nation's biggest city could become not even a nice place to visit...
...Senator Edward Kennedy, 43, running for the presidency? Despite his "firm, final and unconditional" announcement last September that he would not accept the nomination, the talk that he will run is stronger than ever. The speculation results partly from some Democrats' yearnings for a return to Camelot, but mostly from the failure of any of the party's five announced candidates to excite much support...
...press releases, made no major policy statements. His largest press conference was attended mainly by reporters from Newton North High School. The only national reporter who accompanied him was TIME'S Stanley Cloud. Kennedy told Cloud: "I'm not running for President, and I will not accept the nomination at a deadlocked convention. I don't think it will be deadlocked. There'll be a sifting out of the various candidates, and someone will win a first-ballot victory." Are any of the announced candidates unacceptable to him? "Just Wallace...
Aloof and Sexy. Alain Tanner, a Swiss film maker (La Salamandre), is especially smart in his portrait of the affair between Adriana and Paul, a romance that teaches truths only the woman is prepared to accept. Tanner seduces his audience, just as Paul is seduced, with the heat and affection of the affair. The Middle of the World is both aloof and sexy, qualities Tanner employs to characterize the romance and, finally, to limit...