Word: accept
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...neither Hizballah nor the Lebanese government will accept Israeli troops' remaining on Lebanese soil. "The Israelis have justified this whole war as self-defense, so they could argue that they have a right to continue operations," Mohammed Chatah, the senior diplomatic advisor to the Lebanese prime minister, told TIME. "They need to withdraw." And Hizballah has warned that even if it agrees to refrain from rocket attacks into Israel, it will continue to fight any Israeli soldiers remaining on Lebanese soil...
...basketball player will sink his fourth shot after making the prior three, even though probability says the odds are the same for every shot. That explains sellers' reluctance to cut prices, Peterson says. Academic studies also suggest that frustrated sellers take their homes off the market rather than accept lowball offers. It happened in Boston in 1991, when condo prices tanked and two-thirds of the inventory was withdrawn for sale, says Chris Mayer, a Columbia Business School professor. Sellers then had to wait up to six years for prices to hit their previous peak. Robert Shiller, a Yale economist...
...growing number of entrepreneurs--end-trepreneurs?--are shaking up that model by going directly to consumers. Costco introduced caskets in 2004. Competitive Caskets, a small store in Clifton, N.J., solicits passersby with a bright green awning: 50%--70% OFF; FUNERAL HOMES MUST ACCEPT OUR CASKETS. Bob and Jenny Boots of Eagle Custom Caskets have found their motorcycle-loving niche online. Ernie Wolfe, an art-gallery owner in Los Angeles, markets his Ghanaian-made caskets...
...Sandy, but eventually succumbs to her rather therapeutically stated invitations. Joe Bologna talks a confident wom anizing game, but doesn't score many points. Of this odd lot only Brenda Vaccaro's Marilyn, saddened but not fully daunted by the sudden, accidental death of her husband, seems content to accept a solitary life as the not unbearable price to be paid for happiness past. There's something rather touching about her self-containment. And she makes you think that if this movie had a shred of thoughtfulness about it, if it wanted to make us contemplate courageously, or even just...
Castro: I was among those who proposed joint ventures even before the collapse of the Soviet Union because we had resources that we could not make use of. We have factories that need raw materials, such as fuel, or some more updated technologies so we may accept a joint venture. The principle we base our activities on is that to develop the country needs capital, technology and markets. All these investments and joint ventures are fundamentally aimed at export production...