Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Israelis. Last month chief Palestinian negotiator Haidar Abdul-Shafi echoed a rejectionist demand that his camp "would be happy" to have Palestinians decide in a plebiscite whether to continue in the talks. Such a poll is unlikely to take place -- not least of all because the P.L.O. is not apt to turn such matters over to a public vote. But Abdul-Shafi's remark reflected uneasiness among the delegates over their lack of a popular mandate...
...general, front-runner Clinton, dubbed slick Willie by his political enemies in Arkansas, is more apt to straddle issues than to do the obvious reversals...
...they were born. A mother of six, Margaret Pollard sent her three youngest children there, and marvels at the difference it made. Compared with the older children from more traditional schools, says Pollard, who now works as a secretary at C.M.S., her young ones "are more open, more apt to take chances and much more comfortable with stating opinions than the older ones." It leaves a lasting impression on a child, says Lowell curriculum coordinator Tom Malone, to be able to make an impression on their surroundings: "Because they are empowered to create their own society, they see themselves...
...preferred to have a second egress within the building," said Kuhn. "Modern construction is more apt to have [a second exit] within the building...
Some of the generational split is ideological. The younger gays are more apt to be publicly outspoken about their sexuality and militant about social issues. They provide the bulk of the manpower for ACT-UP and Queer Nation, the two largest militant groups, and they are the gays most likely to endorse such extreme tactics as "outing" -- exposing the secret homosexuality of people who are judged to have hurt the movement or, sometimes, simply to have failed to do enough to help it. Older gay men are more apt to be somewhat closeted, to emphasize working within the system rather...