What's fine for one sort of recipient to know about you may not be acceptable for another.

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In some circles it might even be considered acceptable to not even bother to decline an offer in which you have no further interest.

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Once you have edited the video, it can be compressed to a more acceptable size for downloads.

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Similarly, with less critical services, you should be able to reprovision from backup storage after a short but acceptable outage, even when the primary storage has been lost.

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If you believe that raising tax rates on the top 2 percent by a few points will have a negative effect on the economy and jobs (I do not), then you will likely find the deduction cap is going to be a far more acceptable alternative than what the President has proposed.

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If you had to compare him to an outrageous foreigner, de Gaulle would be more acceptable, if improbable.

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You have got to take them head on in the view that there can ever be anything acceptable about deliberately killing innocent people for the purpose of furthering a political cause.

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