Word: accepter
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...cliff overlooking the English Channel on the 40th anniversary of D-day--that capitalized on the former actor's appeal. In 1987, two years after leaving the White House, Deaver was convicted of lying to agents investigating his lobbying activities. Ever loyal to Reagan, he insisted he would not accept a pardon, which he felt would tarnish the President's image. Deaver was 69 and had pancreatic cancer...
...proof that God is pleased with the Society." And "then and there," she rejoiced, "disappeared the long darkness ... that strange suffering of 10 years." Unfortunately, five weeks later she reported being "in the tunnel" once more. And although, as we shall see, she found a way to accept the absence, it never lifted again. Five years after her Nobel, a Jesuit priest in the Calcutta province noted that "Mother came ... to speak about the excruciating night in her soul. It was not a passing phase but had gone on for years." A 1995 letter discussed her "spiritual dryness." She died...
...That's a condition the government refuses to accept. "Our government is committed to the development of nuclear energy," Singh said on Tuesday. "All political parties should appreciate this vital national interest...
...been foreseen only a short time ago," says political analyst Rosendo Fraga. The suitcase affair may be more harmful to Argentina's relations with Chavez. "The case of the $800,000 has turned the relationship with Venezuela into a political problem," says Fraga. "Kirchner tried to convince Chavez to accept some of the political cost of the suitcase affair, but Chavez refused to take it." Chavez, Fraga explains, can refuse "because of Argentina's economic dependence on Venezuela." And the political sting of that dependence is the Kirchner's problem...
...relative lack of conventional experience - was revealing him as not up to the job. Obama strategists insist that such reviews have nothing to do with their decision. It is, they say, simply the sheer number of invitations from interest groups and news organizations that make it impossible to accept any more offers and still keep effective control of the candidate's time...