Word: accept
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...thing that seems to set me the farthest apart is that my culture and religion do not accept the American concept of dating. Any teenager living in America knows how big an emphasis is placed on having boyfriends or girlfriends, both in society and in the media. On television any show that's meant for a teenage audience covers the topic of dating nearly a hundred times. At school it's the only thing kids seem to talk about. Thus you can see how significant the fact that I don't date is in my life and how hard...
During this past season’s lockout, Goodenow vowed never to accept a salary cap. However, the final agreement, ratified last week, included a cap tied to league revenues...
...stars, up close. The fears that weighed on her family sat lightly on her. "To me, there's a lot of different things that we do during life that could potentially harm us, and I choose not to stop doing those things," she said. "They've all come to accept that it's what I want...
...Hirohito, in an exceedingly rare display of direct political command, overrule some of his own military leaders, who advocated an apocalyptic fight to the finish. Citing the unprecedented destructive power of the atom bombs, he declared, "I swallow my own tears and give my sanction to the proposal to accept the Allied proclamation"--which called for Japan's unconditional surrender...
...contribution of the Communist Party to Chinese culture is an organized platform that has the ability to enforce opinions. For millenniums, Chinese culture has revered power and ignored the plight of the underdog. The Chinese respect strength but if threatened will retaliate with even greater strength. They will not accept help or surrender their values. David Cherbonnier Singapore The Top Snoop Speaks In TIME's interview with CIA director Porter Goss [June 27], you asked him, "Could the U.S. go to war again based on false intelligence?" Goss disingenuously replied that he "would not agree to surmise" that...