Word: acceptibility
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...doesn?t ?steal? the election. But in this partisan atmosphere, when voters are swapping conspiracy theories daily about the other party?s dirty tricks, God help the country if this election is close. With all the potential for an election day breakdown, the eventual loser may simply refuse to accept the results...
It’s all too easy to accept the status quo and cynically conclude that the American electorate just can’t do any better. But a recent book by Yale professor Bruce Ackerman and Stanford professor James Fishkin repudiates what conservatives like to call the soft bigotry of low expectations and proposes a radically innovative solution—a new national holiday they call Deliberation Day (which also happens to be the title of their book). Held two weeks before the presidential election, Deliberation Day would bring Americans together at thousands of sites across the country...
Hoxby stressed that students should not accept the weighting U.S. News uses in its system. But students should not exclusively use the NBER rankings either...
...trade and investment to kick-start their decrepit economy. They've actually taken charge of the nuclear negotiations with the Europeans - an encouraging development, given the fact that they hold the levers of power. They're willing to talk, but their rhetoric of self-sufficiency suggests won't easily accept a deal that leaves them wholly dependent on the good offices of the West to provide the fuel for their nuclear energy program...
...many departments have warned their students that they think the College might not accept up to half of their recommendations. History told its students that roughly half of their concentrators recommended last May for magna would have received the degree cum laude under the new regulations, and half those recommended for cum laude would have received no honors...