Word: accepts
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...several occasions I referred to the use of excessive force as a tragedy. They refused to accept that; they insisted on calling it an "incident." In part, this may be because the Chinese word for tragedy implies that there must be a villain. As one close Chinese friend pointed out to me, no proud Chinese leader -- indeed, no national leader anywhere -- can ever admit that he is a villain. One top Chinese leader told me that any colleague who humiliated China in the world community by acting contrite did not deserve to be in office. Contrition may be an attractive...
Yesterday, with the Wall still locking people in, such talk might have been hard to believe. Today, with the barrier chipped, battered and permeable, it is a good deal easier to accept. In the end it does not matter whether Eastern Europe's Communists are reforming out of conviction or if, as one East German protest banner put it, THE PEOPLE LEAD -- THE PARTY LIMPS BEHIND. What does matter is that the grim, fearsome Wall, for almost three decades a marker for relentless oppression, has overnight become something far different, a symbol of the failure of regimentation to suppress...
...blackmail and therefore pose a more serious risk to "national security" than do heterosexuals. Two recent studies commissioned by the Department of Defense (D O D) have shown that the claim is simply not true. The D O D has commissioned yet a third study, indicating an inability to accept this finding. If the main concern was in fact security, one would expect them to be relieved...
...bill also would tighten rules on accepting gifts and on travel that members may accept...
...Note: Yale didn't have to really accept you for this ploy to work. Yalies are so paranoid they'll believe anything...