Word: accepter
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...ties with Taiwan, which Beijing regards as a renegade province. In secret negotiations over the past decade, papal representatives cleared most obstacles to this kind of understanding, but one major sticking point has remained: the Pope's right to name bishops in China, which Beijing refuses to accept because it would mean ceding authority to a foreign power...
...Pope’s teachings seemed unbalanced. I believed he was bad for the Church because his values went against my own. He seemed a backwards man, caught in a time long since passed and trying to enforce a morality on a world no longer willing to accept it. I criticized his seemingly naïve unawareness that his opposition to birth control could spread pain in a world with dangerous diseases and unwanted children. His stance against abortion seemed to offend human rights. I viewed his refusal to consider female priests as sexism, thinly veiled by Scripture and Church...
Admitted students have until May 3 to accept or decline a place in Harvard’s Class...
...real return for me to end up better off. This “offset rate” is designed to be the level of returns on government bonds, so that if I invest only in government bonds, I will end up no worse off. However, by choosing stocks, I accept higher risk for the possibility of higher returns. If stocks match their average historical return, I will end up with a fat bonus of 3.5 percent per year, compounded over 30-plus years of working and saving. This return is not guaranteed, but Siegel estimates that I would have...
Some inevitably find this risk too high and cite it in opposing voluntary PRAs. But this is a false argument because nobody who finds PRAs too risky is forced to choose them. Only those who want to accept more risk for more return will choose PRAs, and it should not be government’s role to prohibit that they...