11.   In the NHL, a contract holdout is acceptable locker-room behavior.

12.   It has caused a sea change in attitudes toward drinking and driving, ushering in new laws and limits on what is considered publicly acceptable behavior.

13.   Marrying outside the ethnic circle and being homosexual both clearly fall outside acceptable behavior.

14.   On Friday, President Clinton warned the Serbs that they had crossed the threshold of acceptable behavior.

15.   Russell, who wrote the script as well as directed, shows a wicked expertise in delineating seemingly acceptable everyday behavior and then inflating it to lunatic proportions.

16.   The art of education involves teaching acceptable behavior without criminalizing the child.

17.   The child quickly learns that pouting and throwing a tantrum are not acceptable behaviors.

18.   The best step for you to take is to advise this manager that his outbursts are not acceptable managerial behavior.

19.   The disparity in pay has fueled discontent and eroded loyalty to such a degree that stealing on the job is often seen as acceptable behavior, fraud investigators say.

20.   The initiatives sought to prohibit public schools from presenting homosexuality as acceptable behavior.