Word: accepter
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Rusty learned to accept some of Andrea's secretiveness. "I know a few things about her," he says, "but I don't know a lot. I don't probe. I don't want to be nosy." He even respected her obsession about undressing and changing in a closet, out of his sight. She did not like confrontation and argument. He says he wanted her to speak up, but she didn't. She avoided conflicts with stints of silence that lasted days or weeks until he confronted her. "Throw a frying pan at me. Do anything!" Rusty says he told...
...current U.S. position is based on the assumption that Israel's military campaign will, if not destroy Hizballah's military capability, badly bloody the organization and force it to accept what it might deem as a surrender. The "cease-fire" that would eventually be agreed would then amount a mopping up operation. But it's growing increasingly unlikely that those battlefield objectives can be realized, and if not, any cease-fire would probably not be on the terms the Administration is seeking. More often than not, diplomacy results in second-best solutions. And if Hizballah survives the Israeli offensive...
...State Condoleezza Rice's surprise visit to Beirut Monday was intended to send a signal of strong support to the Lebanese government of Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, who would have to request the deployment of the NATO force - and persuade Hizballah, which is also part of the government, to accept...
...local. Right now all legislation on illegal immigration certainly seems to be. In Washington, the House and Senate appear no closer to resolving their impasse on the issue. In competing series of hearings, Senators are insisting on a guest-worker plan, while hard-liners in the House refuse to accept any such accommodation. Fed up with all that congressional talk and the lack of national legislation, cities across the U.S. are passing local laws to deter illegal immigrants from coming to town. An ordinance will go into effect this week in Vista, Calif.--a San Diego suburb--that requires employers...
...Hariri: Through dialogue you eventually come to terms. The thing now is to end the conflict so it will not happen again. In the future, things will be a little bit different. It can't happen again. We would not accept it. Lebanon is being destroyed, left, right and center...