Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former cabinet member declined to accept a salary during her first year at the Red Cross as an attempt to provide an incentive for others to volunteer for charitable organizations...
Upon graduation, Lumbard had been hired by a New York City law firm, but after a chance encounter with Emory Buckner--a prosecuting attorney for the U.S. attorney office for the Southern District of New York--Lumbard decided to accept a position as an assistant in the office. This began an involvement with the public sector that would be crucial to Lumbard's career...
...Frey stepped forward to accept the award, she was surprised with a special treat. Alerted of the honor a week in advance, her parents traveled from Acton to be at the event...
...himself very well. He's been trying to do a lot of things this year. He's trying to rehabilitate his image and learn how the team works." Sprewell's got a tattoo of a bail bondsman's number on his calf. Of course New York is going to accept...
...members of le general's family published a petition last week denouncing the latter-day Charles for joining forces with far-right leader JEAN-MARIE LE PEN, head of the racist and xenophobic National Front Party. "Non!" the petitioners said to De Gaulle's decision to accept the No. 2 slot on the National Front ticket for next month's European Parliament elections. "The name you bear does not belong to you," they declared, calling his candidacy an "insult to the life and memory of our grandfather and great-uncle." Undaunted, the late President's namesake replied that...