Word: accepter
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...Thurmond. The labor movement once tolerated unions that discriminated against women and minorities. But if donors had boycotted these institutions, America wouldn’t have blood drives, the New Deal, or the weekend. Sometimes if you want to support a positive outcome you have to be willing to accept the bad deeds of good organizations...
...even if most Indians accept that their country's new prosperity must be shared, many remain pessimistic that the poor will benefit from the measures. "We have no reason to believe that the current bureaucratic system can deliver," says P. Chengala Reddy, of the Indian Farmers and Industry Alliance, a farmers' lobby, citing the wastage and corruption that have blighted previous initiatives. Chidambaram's paradox is this: to reach India's poor, he has to rely on a bureaucracy whose inefficiency helped perpetuate the problem of poverty in the first place. The Finance Minister is aware of the challenge...
Their statistics show that though 93 percent of women who leave say they want to return, they frequently experience difficulty doing so. Even though the average time off is only 2.2 years, women must often switch careers or accept pay cuts in the process of re-entering the work force, the study found...
...COMMITMENT. It all comes back to us. Individuals, working in unison, form and shape societies. The final myth I will debunk here is that politicians are punished by their constituents for supporting actions to help the poor. There is plenty of experience to show that the broad public will accept such measures, especially if they see that the rich within their own societies are asked to meet their fair share of the burden. Great social forces are the mere accumulation of individual actions. Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope, and that...
...part of the puzzle is relatively easy. Most people in the world, with a little bit of prodding, would accept the fact that schools, clinics, roads, electricity, ports, soil nutrients, clean water and sanitation are the basic necessities not only for a life of dignity and health but also to make an economy work. They would also accept the fact that the poor may need help to meet their basic needs. But they might be skeptical that the world could pull off any effective way to give that help. If the poor are poor because they are lazy or their...