Word: accept
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...believe that this was a mass murder. First of all, there were over 200 children who could not have formed the intent to commit suicide. Second, Jim Jones had isolated his people and conditioned them through suicide rehearsals and mock sieges to accept death. Third, he orchestrated the events on that final day so that the outcome was never in doubt. He had gunmen go shoot the Congressman. Then he turned around to his followers, once he got news the Congressman was dead, and announced it. He said, now some among us have done something that's going to cause...
...surprising that Yang is stepping down as chief executive of Yahoo! His failure in June to accept an offer from Microsoft that would have paid stockholders $33 a share was the coup de schnook. So why didn't the board of directors oust him by Labor Day? Yes, there was the wrath of Carl Icahn, the proxy fight, the settlement that resulted in a reconstituted board. But that circus was all over and done with by July...
...mistake happens later, according to Edelman, when the initial trial fails and the physician doesn't rethink the diagnosis or run the proper tests - and instead addresses the problem by using different drugs. "We need to pay attention to what symptoms mean and patients' response to treatment. We cannot accept lack of responsiveness to medication. It could be a misdiagnosis," Edelman says...
...unwittingly undermined his already weak standing with his defiant statement. "When he said the international community has two choices, he clearly discredited himself," Noorani said. "All along he has been saying that he was elected by the Afghan people, and now he says if the international community does not accept his offer to Mullah Omar, then they can remove him or leave. How can the international community remove him if he is elected?" Safi agrees: "This just proves that the whole election was a farce, and that Karzai is President not by the will of the people...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is not the sort to let a grim outlook undermine his trademark determination. So despite the chorus of warnings against expecting conclusive results from this Saturday's G-20 summit in Washington on the world's crisis-stricken financial system, Sarkozy says he'll accept nothing short of tangible progress toward "moralizing finance markets...