Word: acceptibility
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...needed to reverse the further dispossession of the working poor. There is of course much much more to be done. To quote Martin Luther King, “It is easy to be noble, just undertake noble tasks.” For those of the Harvard community who accept this truth, America now presents many opportunities, and furthermore, opportunities to which the word urgent can be attached...
...TIME: Does "one country, two systems" as applied in Hong Kong provide any model for future relations between Beijing and Taiwan? Chen: I think the clear and fundamental reason we cannot possibly accept the so-called "one China" principle is that, according to the Beijing authorities, that means "one country, two systems." Hong Kong, under the formula, has become a special administrative region and a local government of China. Nobody wants to have Taiwan become a second Hong Kong or a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China...
...students are saying, ‘Yes, we appreciate that we have a responsibility, we’ve been given gifts to be here, we don’t take them lightly, we’re not snobbish about it, we’re not arrogant about it. We accept this great responsibility that comes with this great gift and we’re going to exercise...
Five years later, Women Appealing for Change sought to force the clubs to accept female members by soliciting signatures for a petition to not go to final clubs for a year...
...Current indications are that the man who will replace Arafat as the head of Fatah, and its presidential candidate, will be Mahmoud Abbas, the White House-favored moderate who served a troubled term as Prime Minister before resigning rather than accept the neutered role allowed by Arafat. Abbas, who would govern in concert with Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, may be more inclined to compromise and make deals than Arafat has been, but Palestinian politics is more dangerously fractured than ever after the passing of a national leader who stayed in power by navigating his way between many different and conflicting...