Word: accept
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...actuality, Dr. Bell has made the prospect of hiring non-white faculty more remote. With the above reputation, the Law School administration will be hard pressed to comply with Dr. Bell's demands. His publicity tactics have backfired. Few qualified Blacks, female or male, in their right mind would accept a position at an institution with such a tarnished hiring reputation, Harvard...
Canada's long-running confederation soap opera headed for a cliff-hanger finale last week. In the hardscrabble Atlantic province of Newfoundland, 52 provincial legislators hurriedly canvassed their constituents on whether to accept a constitutional agreement hashed out by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the country's ten provincial premiers a week earlier. In the prairie province of Manitoba, Elijah Harper, a Cree Indian and member of the legislative assembly, repeatedly blocked debate on the same ratification issue. The clock was ticking: if either legislature fails to approve the agreement by June 23, a delicate compromise over Quebec's place...
...forward, he could plainly see two Burmese soldiers on the other side of the minefield reinforcing their bunkers with mud and wood. He lifted his carbine to shoot but was sharply ordered to hold his fire. He still seems incredulous about that; the hardest lesson for the children to accept is that ammunition has to be saved...
...nursing child." Moreover, belief that the Holy Spirit "calls women and men to all ministries of the church" is for the first time elevated to creedal status alongside such fundamental matters as the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And the soothing assertion that the Holy Spirit "sets us free to accept ourselves" is more akin to pop psychology than to the stern confessions of yore. What would John Calvin...
That direct quid pro quo is an advantage Washington does not yet enjoy. Polls show that even on a federal level, voters accept the idea of taxes to address specific problems; reducing the deficit is not one of them...