Word: accept
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...gripe: the iPhone 3G does not let you record video or watch live TV, features that are standard (and free) on less expensive rivals like the Samsung Instinct and Verizon Voyager. There is no excuse for leaving out these functions. Otherwise, I can live with the unremovable battery and accept the skimpy battery life (about 5 hours with heavy usage in my tests) as the price for the iPhone's big, bright screen. Since I don't have a huge media collection, the unexpandable memory (8 GB comes standard; for 16 GB, you'll pay an extra $100) doesn...
...bogus airplane parts, sievelike security at airports, antiquated air-traffic-control systems. Only with a major crash, only with people dead and sobbing survivors filling television screens, does the FAA step up to the plate and make changes. I found the FAA's complacency toward accidents difficult to accept...
...very group that John McCain so desperately wants to impress, about as close as you can come to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., this September will be a triangle of pavement about 84 feet from the Xcel Energy Center, the sports arena where McCain plans to accept the nomination. Non-credentialed citizens at the Democratic convention in Denver will be directed to a fenced-in portion of "Parking Lot A" several football-field lengths away from the Pepsi Center, where the party will produce a late-August teleplay in honor of Barack Obama...
...grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things...
...anticipation of the G-8 summit, major developing nations, including China and India, made it clear that they would be willing to accept "significant deviations from business as usual" - meaning they would take action to reduce the expected growth of their carbon emissions in the future. In exchange, they demanded that developed nations agree to cut their own carbon emissions by 25% to 40% by 2020. The proposal was a meaningful change from past negotiations, when developing nations routinely refused to contemplate any kind of limit on their growth. "The fact that they put this on the table is very...