Word: acceptant
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This is excuse enough for councillors like Galluccio to accept the development as planned, said Robert Winters, a long-time Cambridge resident and observer of the council who has also run for a seat on the body in the past...
This is excuse enough for councillors like Galluccio to accept the development as planned, said Robert Winters, a longtime Cambridge resident and observer of the council who has also run for a seat on the body in the past...
Feingold gained notice during the 1996 Senate election for refusing to accept soft money and just barely winning against aggressive opponents. As a senator, he has a reputation for promoting campaign finance reform...
Moore says that while she was in ROTC, there was a push by some Harvard midshipmen to bring the program back to campus. She remembers talking about the discrimination issue with one of the students behind the campaign: "He said that the military shouldn't have to accept people who had something wrong with them, whether they were gay or had a leg missing, or whatever--his words...
This point is being made obliquely by Jewish groups and individuals who abjure these offers of institutional compensation and even gently condemn those whose accept them. In TIME last December, Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, himself a Holocaust survivor, said those "who have claims deserve to bring them forward, but it's at a heavy price. The next generation will believe it's all about money." Yet the plain, if unsatisfactory, truth is that money is the most tangible instrument of compensation that society has at its disposal. Verbal apologies have been proffered in recent...