Word: accept
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...attempt to override the veto failed, negotiations between Congress and the White House resumed. To break the impasse, it appeared for a time that the factions might agree to a trade: Democrats would go along with a cut in the capital-gains tax favored by the President; Republicans would accept the hike in income taxes on the wealthy that the Democrats demand. Such a swap had been explicitly rejected during the five-month budget talks that produced the original plan...
IMAGINE if the Bolivian government subsidized coca farmers and then pressured the U.S. to allow the importation of processed cocaine. Imagine if Burma appealed to international law to get the U.S. to accept shipments of heroin...
...reprehensible as Harvard's legacy policy is, we can do little but shake our heads and curse as long as Harvard students remain content to accept a spoils system as a substitute for fair and equitable admissions...
...percent of the Harvard undergraduate community enrolled in ROTC attracted an inordinate amount of abuse last year. The turmoil culminated in ROTC being excluded from the use of Harvard facilities. The Faculty even threatened to refuse to accept ROTC scholarship funds...
Last year, the administration banned ROTC from using University facilities on account of its refusal to accept gay and lesbian students. But discarding the program from campus sends a hypocritical message. ROTC trains capable and intelligent human beings to be good officers in the US military. These college students made the decision to add the commitment of ROTC to an already challenging period of life...