Word: accepter
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...family life. Research done by French sociologist Christine Castelain Meunier has shown that fathers in the 30 to 40-year-old age range are less likely to be remote, disciplinarian figures than their predecessors: "These men spoke to the fetus, were present at the birth; they refuse to accept the idea of their children growing up without them." Professor Chaumier has noted an increasing emphasis on home life. He says "People withdraw into their family as the last bastion capable of giving meaning to their lives because they don't find much meaning elsewhere - not in politics, projects or work...
...some friction. For example, Marcelle and Max Billaux say they know affluent French residents of Rabat's casbah who not only do not declare their domestics to authorities, but pay them j3 per day - not unlike the subservience wages some bosses in Europe pay illegal immigrants who will similarly accept nearly anything to land hard-won work. Moroccans who see such treatment happening at home could start asking where transcontinental integration stops and neocolonial exploitation starts. "We're aware this economic advantage that allows us to buy a home and live well here cuts two ways," says Marcelle Billaux...
There's only one way to save Darfur: tell Sudan it can either accept the U.N. force or face war against the world's most powerful military alliance. Though the U.N. can't fight its way into Darfur, NATO can. If it does, al-Bashir could end up following Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic and Liberia's Charles Taylor to a war-crimes trial at the Hague. Confronted with that prospect, al-Bashir might conclude that a U.N. peacekeeping force...
...Even Tami had her emotional limits, though. Down the hall, a 22-year-old specialist named James Fair wouldn't accept the loss of his two hands. He had also lost both eyes when a bomb he tried to defuse exploded, and nerve sensations tricked him into thinking he still had hands. He kept asking Tami to pass him objects. "James, you don't have any hands," she'd reply. He'd refuse to believe her, demanding next that she hold one of his stumps...
...them volunteer, about one hour a week. Only 2% of students apply to 12 or more colleges, and only 150 of the nation's 3,500 colleges are so selective that they turn down over half their applicants. There are actually tons of college slots: 44% of colleges accept every single applicant. Some graduates do move home after college, but more 18-to-34-year-olds lived at home during the 1980s than do so today. Most families in America aren't doing too much for their children. They're doing everything they can, and it's just barely enough...