Word: accepting
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...demand governmental accountability. He fought to allow all Americans to see exactly how their money is being spent, and demanded that senators no longer be able to request legislative earmarks anonymously. He worked with Senator Russ Feingold to implement common-sense ethics reforms, preventing members of Congress from accepting gifts from lobbyists and restricting the revolving door between lobbying firms and Capitol Hill. And that commitment has extended to the campaign trail, where he does not accept any campaign contributions from lobbyists or interest groups...
...Nobody here will ask you your religion, or where you come from," he adds. "They just accept...
...among the world's "remaining autocracies," even though the country holds elections. The people of Iran elected its current President and will do so again. Although candidates are screened by an unaccountable group of religious �lites, Iran is a far cry from many other countries. Would we necessarily accept the results if Egyptians or Pakistanis were granted a genuine vote...
...Anthony is about as close to a district-wide candidate as Cambridge could produce,” said Winters, who is also a Harvard Extension School instructor. “The more left-leaning people of Cambridge have come to accept him...[and he] probably wouldn’t cause other candidates to pop up as strongly as some others outside of Cambridge [would]—places like Everett, they’d say ‘Oh, Anthony Galluccio, we know him, we can live with this...
...dinner Friday night, Bok recounted his efforts more than two decades ago to convince Thompson to head the project. “He, that scoundrel, would not come!” Bok said, in reference to the eight years he waited for Thompson to accept the post. As guests celebrated the center’s first 20 years, Thompson said that there are still challenges ahead for the Safra Center and other ethics institutes. “The biggest challenges are still what they’ve always been,” Thompson said. “In general, people...