Word: accept
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...accomplish quite a bit during his brief tenure. When Hickenlooper, who is called Mayor Hick, took office in July 2003, he inherited a $70 million budget deficit, the worst in city history. He eliminated the shortfall without major service cuts or layoffs, convincing city employees that they should accept less pay and instituting mandatory leave days (he slashed his salary 25%). Bucking the wisdom that you don't take on city-hall unions, he pushed for an incentive-based compensation system for public employees, which voters approved in 2003. And in his biggest score, he won approval...
...would be easier to accept Coulter's reasoning if a shadow of bigotry didn't attach to many of her statements about Arabs and Muslims. At the reception after her CPAC speech, she mocked some of the more ornate claims of torture from suspected terrorists detained by the U.S.: "It's completely insane stuff. 'The government flew me to Las Vegas and made me have sex with a horse,'" she said to laughter. But then she added with a grin, "Liberals are about to become the last people to figure out that Arabs lie." How did such a flagrantly impolitic...
...women place their hands on each other and hug themselves in a healing embrace, it is clear that they search for comfort from one another because other sources have failed them. Particularly cynical of the social and governmental support within Israel, the women are ambivalent to accept outsiders’ compassion...
With the premise of handing control of the camera over to Cal (Calvin Robertson) and Andre (Andre Keuck), the film refuses to accept the idea of its anti-heroes as hopeless zombies led astray by the supposed ills of popular culture. The two are smart, witty at times, and almost wholly independent of their surroundings. They have friends, their families are not in any way abusive, and they never mention their cultural preferences, in fact burning all of their possessions before the attack so that no blame can be laid on such associations...
...alternative would be to accept the reality and deal with it, a la putting condoms in high school bathrooms instead of preaching abstinence. In this regard, Harvard should do everything its power to turn sexual intercourse into frivolous fun. We should turn our dorms into the sexual playpens of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” where students can engage in hetero- and homoerotic activity to release tension before they are drugged off to sleep to get ready for the tough day of work ahead...