Word: accept
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...PAUL, Minn.—As Alaska Governor Sarah Palin prepares to accept the Republican nomination for vice president tonight, members of the party nationally as well as at Harvard say they’re unfazed by the news that Palin's unmarried 17-year-old daughter is pregnant...
...valuable humanistic service. People like Jan Dítĕ are always the victims of the politicians and ideologues who would engineer the human soul. And they never quite understand why they are carelessly chosen for exile, prison or death. There's something eerie in the serene way they accept their fates. But there's something sweetly comical about it, too. I Served the King of England may not be a totally riveting movie, but it is, in its gently insinuating way, a curiously rewarding...
...economy. Cutting spending now to reduce the budget deficit will only make a recession worse. This does not mean Tokyo should return to its failed policies of the 1990s by spending freely on wasteful construction projects and subsidies to special-interest groups. It means only that the government should accept modest deterioration of its balance sheet during an economic downturn...
...most sinful politician alive. His 50 years of nearly continuous service to his country - in the Navy, as a POW and in Congress - have been a tumultuous and often inspiring saga of a man and his code. McCain languished in prison in Hanoi for years rather than accept a release he considered dishonorable, and he has made his mark in Washington as a kind of honor politician, a crusader who has chosen his battles on the basis of morality rather than ideology. Fighting to limit the influence of money in politics or performance-enhancing drugs in sports, attacking Democrats...
...Obviously, such recognition has benefited my political career, and I am grateful for that," he writes. "But I have tried to make what use I can of Vietnam and not let the memories of war encumber the rest of my life's progress. Neither have I been content to accept that my time in Vietnam would stand as the ultimate experience of my life...