Word: accept
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...added that some people have not received leaves of absences but have instead had to resign from their jobs in order to accept fellowships...
...Beyond that, the U.S. has had trouble finding countries willing to accept some 75 prisoners that it wants to release, and is grappling with how it will try roughly 80 others in if they are brought into...
...Bush Administration's hopes of using Abbas as a defense against the rise of Islamic radicalism. After Hamas' triumph in the 2006 elections, Prime Minister Ismail Haniya's government was was denied aid by the quartet--the U.S., the European Union, the U.N. and Russia--for refusing to accept Israel's existence, renounce violence and adhere to past peace accords signed by Israel and the Palestinians. And yet Hamas still gained support, largely because Abbas failed to rid himself of the corrupt officials that had turned the Fatah movement into a band of gangsters and mercenaries. To Palestinians, Hamas seemed...
Scheim and Davis readily accept this Oswald as an impostor. But both conveniently tend to consider other alleged sightings of Oswald as genuine: sitting in a New Orleans bar with an associate of mobster Marcello's and taking money under the table; traveling with another Marcello crony three months before the assassination. In this selective reasoning, neither author seems to consider that some or all of the witnesses could be mistaken, their memories swayed by the TV images of the assassin's face...
...Mafia had a strong motive to kill the President, where are the connections to Oswald, the executioner, and Ruby, the silencer? They are almost too numerous to count, if you accept the claims of Scheim, a manager of computerized information at the National Institutes of Health. He seems to have amassed every reference ever printed about the J.F.K. assassination figures and mobsters, then woven these threads to fit a Mafia-hit theory...