Word: accepter
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...desk in visitor services. The awkward and uncomfortable dance these two perform around one another as they try to work through their shared past and deal with the present microcosmically captures the post-college, twenty-something lifestyle. Stevens refers to this time, marked by indecision and a reluctance to accept responsibility for one’s actions, as a “drifting stage of development, between college and career...
...Supreme Court, the Justice Department argued that because FAIR member schools “ha[ve] not been compelled to do anything,” but have “voluntarily chosen to enter into grant agreements or contracts” with the federal government, the schools must accept the stipulations attached to those grants...
...opposition to his plan to revamp Social Security. After months of ducking specifics about the hard benefits cuts that will be necessary to fix the system, Bush used his prime-time press conference last week to endorse a plan that would ask future middle- and higher-income retirees to accept smaller benefit checks than they're currently slated to receive, while allowing poor recipients to maintain current benefit levels. In a 60-day effort to push his plan (with its controversial provision for personal investment accounts), Bush had failed to convince the public or even his allies in Congress...
LUCAS You know, I said three's fine. And then I came up with an idea I thought was brilliant, so I told the other guys [Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford], and they kind of flipped out. It's vaguely in the realm of the supernatural. We have to accept the fact that Indiana Jones is an older man. But it's been hell getting a script out of it. Steven is committed to shooting it next year. I just got the latest script yesterday...
LUCAS Well, I had mixed feelings about being George Star Wars Lucas. That was a hard thing, but I did finally accept the fact that there was probably nothing I was going to do with the rest of my life that was going to change that, that I might as well live with it. It's not the worst thing in the world. If that was my shot at some kind of vague little mark on history, hey, that's not so bad. That sort of led to saying, Well, if I'm already George Star Wars Lucas, then...