Word: accept
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...Fine, we know it's going to be hard. But still, there must be some mental exercises that can help ease the pain. The first step is to accept how much it hurts, regardless of those dismissive observers you might know who tell you to have some perspective, that it's just the end of the season, not the end of the world. Sure, the fate of your sports team is less pressing than, say, your marriage or mortgage, and it may seem ridiculous to tie your self-esteem to the actions of multimillionaire athletes who don't know...
...maybe I’ve finally grown to fully appreciate and accept the way of the Ivies and other like-minded conferences. From the players to the coaches to the reporters that cover the games, it’s all a little different up here...
...Tymoshenko the premiership on the expectation that she would win some 22% of the vote, and hoped to preserve most key Cabinet jobs for his own OUPD. But Tymoshenko's apparent success allows her to insist on appointing all the ministers herself. Yushchenko is known to be unwilling to accept that: he wants to have his own Foreign, Defense and Interior ministers...
When Edwards suddenly announced last week that he would accept public matching funds - and with it, the campaign finance law's spending restrictions - he portrayed it as a move of conviction. "This is not about a money calculation," Edwards told CNN. "This is about taking a stand, a principled stand, and I believe in public financing...
McCain has indicated that he, too, will accept matching funds. He has begun to climb back in the polls, and last week, began his first television ads. But the third-quarter number will be closely watched to see whether his campaign has any real claim to viability. Word in Republican circles is that McCain got some boost with a powerful and intensely personal fund-raising letter he sent out in July that bluntly addressed his campaign's dire situation. "I'm sitting here at 12:33 a.m. at my desk - all alone, writing you this letter," it began. "My wife...