Word: accept
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...Internet downloads last year, profit margins on such projects vaporized. In negotiating Cameron Diaz' s salary for next month' s romantic comedy,The Holiday, for instance, sources say Sony persuaded the actress--who got a reported $20 million to headline its Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle in 2003--to accept cash up front and a share of the revenue after the studio covered its production and marketing costs, rather than a percentage of the box office take from opening day forward...
...like watching an aging rocker with too much ego back onstage: the old flashy moves may evoke the glory days but no longer convince. I accept that Tony Blair sincerely wants peace in Iraq and the broader Middle East, and that for the few months remaining in his premiership, he shouldn't just sit around. But his foreign-policy speech at the [an error occurred while processing this directive] Guildhall last week, followed by videolink testimony to the Baker-Hamilton commission in Washington that's tasked with somehow extricating the U.S. from Iraq, makes me think Blair's remarkable self...
...have deferred to the provost to chair ad hoc committees for some schools). In that capacity, he or she has veto power over every appointment Harvard makes, as well as substantial direct influence in any hiring offers. Finally, the president also plays a large role in convincing candidates to accept an offer of tenure...
...program will help address glaring gaps in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations that he says an “unsympathetic administration” has ignored. “We just lost two fields, Persian Languages and Literatures, and Turkish Languages and Literatures, and we cannot accept any AM or PhD candidates for these fields,” he said. This is “a situation that clearly needs to be rectified.” Heinrichs said that he is hoping to steer the program toward a focus on modern Islamic studies?...
...both countries, which have strong commercial interests in Iran, are using the contrast between North Korea and Iran to argue against taking any kind of punitive action against Tehran. Unlike North Korea, after all, Iran continues to accept the terms of the Non-Proliferation Treaty - and even though it has expressed concerns over transparency and unanswered questions, and has challenged Iran to do a lot more to reassure the world over its intentions, the IAEA says it has found no evidence that Tehran actually has a nuclear weapons program. So Moscow and Beijing are pushing back against the sanctions option...