Word: accept
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...course, Stevens also recommended to GOP leaders that they accept the White House's compromise. And get the heck out of town...
...Monday, Mrs. Carnahan announced she would accept Wilson's appointment to the Senate if her husband were to win the seat. "It's what Mel would have wanted me to do," she told a crowd gathered in Rolla, Mo. Is it what she wants to do? Perhaps. Mrs. Carnahan was apparently moved by Cokie Roberts' encouragement, who recounted her own mother's ascent to politics after her father, Louisiana representative Hale Boggs, disappeared in a plane over Alaska. The campaign, Roberts told Carnahan, helped her mother overcome her grief. And it's quite possible that simple self-preservation has been...
...most disturbing statements centered around the myth that Israel has offered the Palestinians peace. This can only be considered true if you accept a demand for total capitulation as a legitimate peace offer. That "the most generous offer Israel has ever made" calls for Israeli military control over one of Islam's three holiest sites (the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem), the perpetuation of a system of apartheid where Palestinians and Arabs can aspire to be no more than second-class citizenship and the continued defiance of numerous U.N. resolutions says more about Israel's problematic commitment to peace than...
...time when some schools will accept a player with no regard to grades (except for the requirements that are forced on them), is the NCAA fooling itself...
...David that Arafat hadn't prepared his people adequately for the tough choices he'd have to make. But they failed to grasp why he hadn't done so: Arafat arrived at the presidential retreat already having made far more concessions than Palestinians on the streets were ready to accept. "Clinton assumed that Arafat didn't have firmly felt positions, that his problems could be papered over," says Edward Abbington, a former State Department diplomat who now advises the Palestinians...