Word: accept
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Before Franco made his move, Juan Carlos made a key decision of his own. Until recently, the prince (and husband of Greece's Princess Sophie, stormy Frederika's daughter) often vowed that he would "never, never" accept the throne as long as his father remained alive. This year, at last convinced that Don Juan could never become King, Juan Carlos began staking out his own claim. The prince still has no assurance, of course, that he will ever assume the throne and, even if the monarchy is restored, Franco has not specified what power it would have after...
...Premier in France should have at present. After all, his main duty will be to direct a reform program whose goal is to redress potentially explosive grievances in French society. Two of the major groups with which he must deal, the students and workers, are in no mood to accept highhanded treatment from the government. Still, Couve is a man of such undisputed talent and dedication that he may be able even to overcome his personal reserve in order to meet headlong the greatest challenge of an already distinguished career...
...reformers later rejected the Zionist notion that the only home for the Jew is Israel, arguing that Zion is anywhere a Jew prays. But because of the need of a national home for Hitler's victims, Reform Jews came to accept Israel. Says Rabbi William Rosenthall, the World Union's executive director...
...vaguely sinful to enjoy it and unforgivably sinful to do so in public." Of course, this feeling is less a matter of morality than envy. In this wonderfully egalitarian country, the have-nots naturally demand: "Why not me?" And in politics, the voters have come to accept rich candidates, if not actually to prefer them...
Even before the Washington hearings began, the exchanges had given a bit. In separate but almost simultaneous votes, they agreed to accept "volume discounts" of an unspecified amount on large stock transactions. They also recommended outlawing the controversial practice of "give ups"-by which a large stock trader (usually a mutual fund) directs the broker executing the order to split his commission with another brokerage firm. Often such fee splitting is a reward for unconnected services such as selling mutual-fund shares; the Government maintains that the custom undermines the whole case for fixed commissions. "Confused." As lead-off witness...