Word: accepter
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...holds elections. The people of Iran elected its current President and will do so again. Although candidates are screened by an unaccountable group of religious élites, Iran is a far cry from many other countries. It is easy to advocate for more representative democracies, but would we necessarily accept the results if Egyptians or Pakistanis were granted a genuine vote? Our hypocrisy shines brightest with Saudi Arabia. There are few nations in the world that are so lacking in what we Americans call basic freedoms, let alone elections. Jason Wojcechowskyj, Sarasota, Florida...
...system in which farmers are divorced from market feedback and often must wait months to be paid. Many farmers routinely go into debt to the very traders who buy their produce and then sell them seeds and fertilizers for the next crop. Customers, meantime, had little choice but to accept food of uneven quality and unreliable supply. "Something that was designed to protect farmers and consumers ended up hurting them," says Mukherjee...
...small project offices around the world. His operations are global - condo towers in Singapore and Warsaw, a shopping mall in Bern, a performing-arts center in Dublin. Or almost global. At a time when architects are flocking to China, Libeskind, who grew up under communism in Poland, refuses to accept commissions from Beijing...
Stevenson isn't a buyer at an exclusive boutique. She's a store manager who decides what items to accept for resale at a secondhand-clothing shop called Buffalo Exchange. It's part of a growing chain of stores in a growing industry, and it just may be the cool place to find trendy fashions at a fair price this summer. These are not the musty, downmarket stores of yore. The best ones are as carefully curated as a Soho boutique; put a premium on current styles, not vintage novelties; and turn a healthy profit...
This quickening cycle of fashion lets secondhand stores be pickier than ever. Unlike nonprofits such as Goodwill and the Salvation Army, which accept most donations, the fast-fashion resale shops typically buy only about 5% of the apparel that people bring into the store. It can be a humbling experience for a novice seller, who may find herself leaving the shop with the same bag of castoffs that she walked in with...