Word: accept
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...larger issues are not to be missed. Harry Potter's story begins as a story of being chosen. We are beyond this, faced with the larger, more immediate problems of choosing. When Harry received his summons, he chose to go, and to accept the responsibility that came with it. Though much less exciting than the heavens splitting open, it's our individual choices which make future mythologies possible...
Since the show will accept 30 students of the 1,875 it interviews, students set their chances at 1.6 percent...
...July, Judge Parker dealt the prosecution two blows. He ruled that the defense could use highly sensitive material in court, forcing the government to accept a compromise of secret information. And he allowed Lee's lawyers to subpoena internal government documents that might shed light on whether racial profiling had been used to target Lee in the first place. Both rulings threatened to make a trial unpleasant for the government. Lee's lawyers planned to portray him as an unlikely spook, more bumbling and naive than clever and secretive, who had asked for a colleague's help in moving...
...announced a package of new policies, including a promise that it would provide in its advertising explanations of why any of its films received PG-13, R or NC-17 ratings - for instance, for violence, sex, profanity or drug use - and that its ABC-TV network would no longer accept ads for R-rated movies during prime time before 9 p.m. Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America, admitted to the committee that the FTC report identified some practices - like focus groups for 10-year-olds - that should end. But he insists that the ratings system adopted...
...agree is before conception. The abortion debate begins at that instant--no conception, no fetus to be aborted and hence no debate over the rights of the unborn. (Some religious groups do press for protection even of the unconceived and protest the use of contraceptives; I challenge them to accept a compromise on acceptance of contraception as essential to reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies and hence potential abortions...