Word: accept
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While McCain apparently intends to accept about $84 million in public financing after he is nominated, Obama has been moving in the opposite direction. After once vowing to take public money, he now calls his online fund-raising machine a "parallel public-financing system," which is convenient because it has no upper limit "He's got an incredible small-dollar operation," observes Charlie Black, a senior adviser to the McCain campaign. "That's a huge advantage for them...
Branson does not accept that idea. Virgin, he says, can succeed where discount and traditional carriers have failed, by offering something different: a hybrid that delivers good service at a reasonable price and eliminates the hub-and-spoke approach that creates mayhem whenever the weather sours. He has convinced his investors, who have so far put $312 million in capital into Virgin America, that this model can work in the U.S. "We're going to shake up the market," he says. Branson expects Virgin America to be profitable within two years. He has done this before: both his British...
...satisfied. Of course, you're not. Ambitious girls never are." This book is pitched to a younger audience than DiSesa's, which speaks to the more seasoned and frustrated businesswoman. The Girl's Guide is best for female neophytes, who will welcome its empowering patter: "Don't accept that you are the girl who never gets what she wants. Instead, become the girl who makes it happen for herself." Friedman and Yorio are generally less concerned with closing the gender gap (women earn 77˘ for every $1 earned by men) than with inspiring readers to transcend it. They praise...
...probably. Maybe my mom.RR: Anyone you really wouldn’t want to be with?CG: Well definitely not this character Brandon.RR: Well Tony made it personal. He said he wouldn’t want to be with Caroline.CG: Oh my gosh! Well Tony would be okay, I can accept that. But not Brandon. I think any of the actors in this cast I’d be happy to be stranded on a desert island with. RR: I think you should go fight Tony.CG: Go fight him? I might just have to do that. I’ve been...
...bliss, only to recoil so suddenly and retreat stupidly into the hallway.Had the Viscountess been in a reflective mood, she might have considered the possibility that she no longer possessed for him the charms she had once had as a young bride; but that thought was too painful to accept, and she thrust it aside in favor of fury. Yes, he had done it on purpose; he had acted out of unadulterated malice.But the Viscountess had never been one for defeat. She was no shy violet; she would not allow that thing, that pitiful imitation of a man, to trample...