Word: accept
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Deeble watches the evolution of health policy with interest. If bulk billing came to mean that patients paid a small sum from their own pockets, he confides, he could accept that. But he tends to think any bulk-billing crisis has been "manufactured" on behalf of doctors who resent that twentysomething stockbrokers earn more than they do. "The government could limit the doctors' charges under Medicare," Deeble says. "It's just that there's been a general agreement that the blood on the ground would be so bad that they never would. But I think some day they might have...
...that city, but the SARS outbreak restricted travel around Asia, forcing him to film in Hong Kong. As fears of an epidemic intensified, the entire production was disrupted, with some Taiwan crew members having difficulty getting to Hong Kong. "Their wives just went crazy," Wong says. "They couldn't accept their husbands working on such a dangerous film, in such a dangerous city. But the men still came...
...shooting the Eros project in Shanghai during the SARS period. At that time because we can't leave Hong Kong, we have to shoot in Eros in the city, and some of our crew members were coming from Taiwan. Their wives just went crazy, because they couldn't accept their husbands working on such a dangerous film, in such a dangerous city. But they still came...
Meanwhile, the 2002 McCain-Feingold law dramatically changed the way money flowed into the system and whom it flowed to. With candidates restricted to maximum donations of $2,000 from individuals and with parties no longer allowed to accept unlimited tubs of soft money, the supposedly independent 527 committees like the left-wing MoveOn Voter Fund and the Kerry-bashing Swift Boat Veterans for Truth entered the message-management game playing by their own set of rules. Together, these 527 groups have raised more than $240 million. Their ads have been edgier, uglier and arguably more effective than anything...
...OUGHT TO REMEMBER THE WORDS of H.L. Mencken: "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong." All of Bush's simple solutions to our country's problems have been, invariably, wrong. I do not want as President an amiable fellow who does not accept that politics is about compromise. I would rather have an effective President whom I despise as a person than a wrongheaded one who is a good fishing buddy...