Word: accept
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...letter concludes by saying, "Attorney General Gonzales has proven an unsuitable steward of the law and should resign for the good of the country... The President should accept the resignation, and set a standard to which the wise and honest might repair in nominating a successor..." It is the first public demand by a group of conservatives for Gonzales' firing. Signatories to the letter include Bruce Fein, a former senior official in the Reagan Justice Department, who has worked frequently with current Administration and the Republican National Committee to promote Bush's court nominees; David Keene, chairman of the influential...
...progressively sensitive. She was hysterical (in the sense of both being funny and prone to hysterics), a little hyperbolic, and very aggressive. Elmore won my wholehearted support from the moment that she declared, “My ancestors came to this country shackled,” and refused to accept that everything she had worked for was gone...
...nothing when their students illegally take thousands of songs without paying for them. This double standard is unacceptable. The Internet has made plagiarism difficult to control, just like illegal downloading, but no one suggests that universities should pursue a different “business model” and simply accept plagiarism...
...poster boy of sorts in the ongoing cacophony over hemispheric issues like illegal immigration. One of the stiffest challenges facing Mexico's conservative new President, Felipe Calderon, is the creation of almost a million new, decent-paying jobs a year. But first, say most economists, Calderon has to accept a task that Mexican governments historically have dismissed - that is, regulate the monopolies, which lord over every industry from cement to broadcasting, and chip away at their epic privileges. The big reason for that urgency: the majority of Mexican workers are employed not by Big Business but by the nation...
...over New York’s fashion week, and have recently been embraced by such luminaries as Fergie (god, “Glamorous” is so awesome!!!) and Eva Mendes. I don’t really know how I feel about it. I have just started to accept skinny jeans and even enjoy them in a weird Brent Michaels type way, where I would I traipse around Cambridge, tucking my skinnies into ankle boots, trashing hotel rooms and writing searing power ballads in Laundromats. I liked this existence. It was weird at first when I bought the same pants...