Word: accept
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...Green. The economic sticking point is still Britain's cosseted agricultural structure. But Wilson seems privately resigned, as the Tories were not in 1961 and 1962, to the fact that Britain will probably have to accept the existing club rules as the price of admission. For the Europeans, even the West Germans and Dutch, who most desire Britain's partnership in the EEC, still have lingering doubts about London's commitment to the European ideal of unity. And there is always the giant question mark of Charles de Gaulle, who said non once before and could...
...solved almost at once. Not for a moment does anyone mistake the dead man for his killer. Hiding out in France awaiting arrest, Hermann sets down in his last weeks the narrative that constitutes Nabokov's book, and rages at the perversity of the world, which will not accept at face value-refuses even to recognize-his work of deceptive...
Representative B. F. Sisk (D-Calif.) maintains that he is not opposed to home rule, and claims his bill was a sincere effort to present home rule in a form that the House would accept. The fact remains, however, that his bill was widely supported by opponents of home rule, while home rule advocates never took the bill seriously and were very much surprised when the House passed...
...harder to understand the rest of the House. No one in Washington seems able to explain why the House as a whole is so much more hostile to the District of Columbia than the Senate. Why, for instance was the Senate willing to accept the automatic Federal payment, while even those House members who favored home rule balked at the payment provision...
...system would eventually have no less impact on Soviet offensive preparations than the prospect of a minor Soviet defense is already having on our offensive weapon expenditures. Long lead times for the construction of deterrent forces being what they are, both sides would, for all practical purposes, have to accept a minor missile defense as the thin edge of a wedge--and all would respond accordingly...