Word: accept
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...decade or so ago, scientists were arguing vigorously over whether animals had emotions: just because a dog looks sad or a chimp appears to be embarrassed doesn't mean it really is, the skeptics said. That argument is pretty much over. The idea of animal emotion is now accepted as part of mainstream biology. And thanks to Bekoff and other researchers, ethologists are also starting to accept the once radical idea that some animals--primarily the social ones such as dogs, chimps, hyenas, monkeys, dolphins, birds and even rats--possess not just raw emotions but also subtler and more sophisticated...
Sometimes simple ideas make more sense. The day of the London bombings, New York officials cut cell-phone service in tunnels leading into the city--in case anyone was planning to detonate a bomb with a cell phone. Once we accept that some attacks are inevitable, we can do sensible things to limit the damage and disruption--like using blast-proof glass in buses. Even things like emergency lighting can save lives. In London, it took more than an hour to clear the Underground. Many could not get out of cars or navigate pitch-black tunnels...
...young student who is Chinese, I have been exposed only to the notion that China is communist and bad. I hope your report will help many readers understand that China isn't as bad as some history teachers make it out to be. Americans need to accept the fact that a country as big and as great as China will overtake...
...Japan. The Kanazawa Institute of Technology boasts a career-services program that secures jobs for 99% of its graduates, while Ochanomizu Women's University offers child-care services to draw in mature students. Other schools are discounting application fees, while some are resorting to American-style innovations: nearly half accept interviews and essays in place of written entrance exams; and venerable Kyoto University, the second oldest college in Japan, even offers organic coffee, local sake and microbrews in its cafeteria...
...your convenience, we now accept money acquired by nonlegal means...