Word: acceptant
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...want to work with me, O.K., first accept the fact that your view of your lover and your spouse are both skewed. Things always seem great with the lover, it's always so romantic and sexy, special, sporadic and, most of all, new and exciting. But guess what? New gets old. I wish I had a nickel for everyone who married their lover and found they replicated what they had with their spouse, with the added poverty of a post-divorce lifestyle. And in the same way, spouses are usually not as bad as they seem. After all, the person...
...anticipation of the G-8 summit, major developing nations, including China and India, made it clear that they would be willing to accept "significant deviations from business as usual" - meaning they would take action to reduce the expected growth of their carbon emissions in the future. In exchange, they demanded that developed nations agree to cut their own carbon emissions by 25% to 40% by 2020. The proposal was a meaningful change from past negotiations, when developing nations routinely refused to contemplate any kind of limit on their growth. "The fact that they put this on the table is very...
...missed. As is always the case in journalism, when he was against the gun, editors had two choices: run what Thompson wrote, however nutty it was, or spike it. But he was a name by then, and his audience was usually entranced enough by the insights he offered to accept all the dross that accompanied them. More important, he began to seem like a symbolic figure of the moment - the victim-saint fighting back against the clueless and often vicious Establishment. Richard Nixon had the capacity to do that to his distinctly disloyal opponents...
According to Scalia, Roberts has used his power to assign opinions when he's in the majority to encourage his colleagues to write narrow decisions that Justices on both sides can accept. "The chief may say, 'Why don't you come along with a very narrow opinion? We can get seven votes for that, and it will look a lot better,'" Scalia recently said on The Charlie Rose Show. "You want to go along with the Chief Justice because ... you want to make the institution work...
...term ends. Citing both Israel's troubled 2006 invasion of Lebanon and U.S. difficulties in Iraq, he was skeptical that either country is prepared to initiate another conflict. "The consequences of such an attack cannot be predicted," he said, expressing doubt that American public opinion would be "willing to accept another attack...