Word: accept
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...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. David P. Vernon Tucson, Arizona, U.S. Bush was thrust into the horror of 9/11, a situation that any President, Republican or Democrat...
...accept and appreciate that our grads may not be the highest paid, as long as they’re doing effective work on behalf of people and democracy throughout the world,” she said...
While the final number of students enrolled in seminars is not known yet—students accepted off waiting lists have until today to accept or decline a spot—at least several hundred students will ultimately be disappointed...
...Whether or not American voters choose to believe the President - or to accept John Kerry's charge that Allawi is simply reading from the administration's script and distorting the reality - in the eyes of Iraqis and most of the international community Allawi does not personify the democratic will of a free people. That's because Allawi owes his appointment last June not to the Iraqi electorate, but to outgoing U.S. administrator J. Paul Bremer. And his authority in Baghdad rests primarily on the backing of some 130,000 U.S. troops that remain in the country, and whose presence...
...Middlesex County, the usual practice is to charge everyone with first-degree murder—even if it’s manslaughter,” Mahoney said. “They’re trying to intimidate you to accept manslaughter. Pring-Wilson hasn’t been intimidated...