Word: accept
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Fitzsimmons insists that the competition is “a good thing,” since it means more colleges are finding ways to accept low-income students...
...Council were to accept the new proposal, city residents would vote this November on whether they wanted to elect the mayor themselves. If that measure passed, then the mayor would be elected directly through a simple ballot beginning...
...better relations, most teachers would argue, resides with parents, who may need to accept that their child isn't gifted, or that there are 27 other children in their darling's class, or that there aren't 45 spots on the school netball team. But teachers won't be surprised to hear that, outside of staff rooms, there seems to be little sympathy for them. A prevalent view is that central to teaching is handling - patiently and professionally - the expectations and anxieties of even the most objectionable parents. "If you can't or won't do that," says Sharryn Brownlee...
...think the best thing for you to do is to simply accept it. Transition is definitely tough, but important. And the more that you acknowledge that the year has passed and you are moving on to new things, the better...
...government has argued that the Solomon Amendment is constitutional since universities are not required to accept federal funding, and therefore do not have to let the military recruiters on campus. This is, however, sheer coercion due to the dependence of private universities on federal funding. Some schools receive upwards of hundreds of millions of dollars from the government, and asking them to forego this money as a cost for implementing non-discriminatory codes is absurd. It is simply not logistically feasible for Harvard to turn down federal funding and continue its cutting-edge research and education...