Word: accept
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...calling for an end to U.S. combat operations in Iraq by 2009. Senate Republicans blocked the bill with a filibuster on November 16. House Democrats argue that a phone call from Bush to Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell to pass the legislation would end the impasse - if Bush would accept the accompanying deadline on U.S. combat operations...
...Arabs among its 1,500 Jerusalem volunteers but is trying to recruit more--are invaluable. Not only can they help serve East Jerusalem, with its maze of unnamed streets, but they are also indispensable for the city's hermetic ultra-Orthodox (or Haredi) Jews, who cannot accept help from a fellow Jew on the Sabbath. "When three Arabs turn up at the door, it's the last thing the Haredi expect, but they're grateful," says Izhiman...
Percentage of teens who say they use IMs to ask people out or to accept dates; 13% say they use them to break...
...voted for Howard in the past but not at the last election of 2004, and he won't be this time. While most politicians are loose with the truth, Peter says, Howard's dishonesty extends to matters of "war and killing [in Iraq] and that I can't accept. He's done some good things, but he's got away with too much for too long...
Mistral says that could involve getting unions to accept Sarkozy's main demand: increasing the number of years public sector employees must work to qualify for full pensions to match the levels in the private sector. State-owned employers would then be allowed to come up with salary or benefit trade-offs that would make that retirement reform acceptable. "That way, Sarkozy applies reform where others failed, and unions and employees feel they've come away better off," Mistral explains...