Word: accept
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Despite his naiveté, his professional determination and a sense of civic duty compelled him to accept the position—even though “every important and sensible person that I knew said, ‘Whatever else you do, don’t take this...
Even now, there are a handful of people, especially among Nixon loyalists convinced the President was wrongfully hounded from power by a vengeful press, who refuse to accept that Felt and Deep Throat are one and the same. "I thought Deep Throat was essentially a composite character" folding in a number of informers, "and I still think it is," says G. Gordon Liddy, the tough-guy White House operative who went to jail for, among other dirty tricks, helping to plan the break-in of the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate complex in Washington by five...
...nominees for directors—Yasushi Suzuki and Chor Weng Tan. And Harvard also opposes the ratification of the appointment of the fund’s independent accountants, Ernst & Young, so that “shareholders will send a message to the Board that they do not accept the Board’s ‘business as usual’ approach, but will only accept substantial change in the management of the fund...
...CLOSED. THAM KRABOK CAMP, home to ethnic Hmong refugees from neighboring Laos since 1992; following an agreement by the U.S. to accept most of its remaining 5,000 residents under a refugee resettlement deal; in Tham Krabok, Thailand. Located 130 km north of Bangkok on the grounds of a Buddhist temple, the camp once housed as many as 20,000 people. Its closure marks the end of a nearly three-decade-long project to resettle more than 300,000 Hmong, who were enlisted by the U.S. to fight communists in Laos and were consequently persecuted by the ruling regime...
BEST PUNCH: "Can't we accept that devotion to the building of body politic is more complex and more sensitive than devotion to bodybuilding...