As one council officer put it, this is a more acceptable term when dealing with the Tory politicians of the shires.

ECONOMIST: The countryside

Clare Mailer from Perth and Kinross Council agreed and said: "In terms of youth homelessness, young home seekers is a much more sort of friendly and acceptable term and I think there is that stigmatisation in terms of homelessness particularly for young persons who have been through the care route".

BBC: Equal Opportunities Committee

So the only acceptable long-term outcome for Amazon shareholders is not merely the conquest of new markets but their ruthless exploitation to finally deliver all the profits the company has been deferring.

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Current accounting rules allow retailers that sign certain long-term leases to omit the leased property from their balance sheets. (The basic rule is that omission is acceptable if the lease term is less than 75% of the useful life of the building.) But the Financial Accounting Standards Board may change that next year.

FORBES: Retailers

The result, for the rest of this decade, will be a slowly climbing roller-coaster ride, one that shows acceptable yields over the long term (thus saving baby boomers with no retirement programs), but not much fun for risk-taking investors.

FORBES: What's In The Chips

Part of the issue is that the benefit of taking insulin is so big--preventing blindness and organ damage--that even a small long-term cancer risk might be acceptable.

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