Word: accepter
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...damage inflicted on Liberia by ECOMOG artillery fire and aerial bombing, which is carried out by Nigerian air force planes, he claimed, amounts to $4.5 billion. "The Liberian people are going to be bitter against their neighbors for a long time," he continued. "They are finding it hard to accept being bombed by Nigerian planes...
...Lewis has called for nations to donate 0.7% of their GDP, and private-sector corporations to follow suit with 0.7% of their pre-tax earnings. ("Although I would accept post-tax earnings," he added to some laughter.) While $8.3 billion was spent on AIDS internationally in 2005, he added, the projections for 2006 have climbed as high as $15 billion and could reach $30 billion by 2010. "We are nowhere near generating that money," he said...
...From a U.N. perspective, we're delighted that Canada is in Afghanistan. There aren't a huge number of countries that have the capabilities, the experience and the money to do so, and if we want to matter in the world, we have to accept our share of responsibilities...
...accept the argument that the escalating sectarian violence in Iraq has nothing to do with 24 years of Sunni oppression of Shi'ites and Kurds under Saddam but is the result of the incompetent U.S. invasion. What about the passion to avenge atrocities committed by the former regime? The U.S. can't be blamed for that. Still, Iraqis are probably better off with a dictator, somebody to force them to get along. They are a people who thrive on dictatorships and blood feuds. Michael Klena Baltimore, Maryland...
...example of Yugoslavia. If the Shi'ites and the Sunnis refuse to cooperate, let them form separate states. Otherwise, they will continue to battle. The Shi'ites don't want to share the power that they have gained since Saddam's overthrow, and the Sunnis refuse to accept minority status in the new government. If dissolving the former Soviet empire and breaking up its satellite states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia made sense, why doesn't separation make sense for Iraq? Bob Mason St. Albert, Canada...