David Hill, the director of design for I.B.M.'s personal computing division, said that the horizontal, or "landscape," display became dominant in the early days of PC's because it accommodated programming information better.
The theatre was criticised by New York Times critic Harold C. Schonberg because, to accommodate a performance of Luigi Dallapiccola's contemporary opera Il prigioniero, about a third of L'Orfeo was cut.
Among environmental groups, the town is viewed as an easy target for developers because of accommodating zoning and what many see as a lack of commitment to preservation or even a pro-development bias among some officials.
Mr. Fan encountered little serious official opposition, perhaps because of his accommodating demeanor, or because national issues are kept mostly in the background of this intimate film, which opens Friday at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village.
We break our neck to accommodate them because they're accommodating us by working for a tiny fraction of what they're worth.
"We're willing to be accommodating, because we think that transparency is important," he said earlier this month.
On the one hand, he must be deferential and accommodating, because without a regular caravan of acts, he has nothing but empty seats and red ink.
Investors are shying away from giant funds partly because, with less accommodating debt markets, the big deals these funds need are tough to pull off.
Campaigns take it as a given that they will have a spy or two in their midst and they are usually fairly accommodating, because they want the same courtesy in return.
They have been affable and engaging, even though we know that Randy Moss spoke for most players when in response to a question he said that he was accommodating because he would be fined if he was not.
