Word: acceptant
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According to a colleague of Paulin, the poet is likely to accept the reinvitation...
...taught at Williams College for four years as an untenured assistant professor—then declined an offer of tenure from Williams to accept an untentured position at Brooklyn College...
...should a friend's parenting style be more difficult to accept than, say, her politics? For starters, because there are few things more important than the values we pass on to our children, and parents today, moms in particular, are acutely sensitive about making the right choices. "We live in a society in which mothers are so blamed in general that they become judgmental of mothers who parent differently," says Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., a psychologist and the author of The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships (HarperCollins...
...FORGIVING Even if a sibling refuses to participate in the care of a parent, you should keep in touch with him or her and find some way to accept the situation. "Not everyone can handle this or will handle it, and you can't force them," observes author McLeod. "That may mean accepting your sibling's limitations and moving forward to do the best you can do. It's healthy to forgive someone, and it's also what the loved one you're caring for would want...
...accounting, Iraq may already have violated the resolution in its first report to the Security Council. When the report came on Wednesday, the relevant clause accepting inspections was couched in a nine-page tirade against the United States that denied the existence in Iraq of any weapons of mass destruction. By producing evidence that Iraq has any remaining stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons, a relatively easy task, the United States can create a case for war at any time it pleases. Since our allies will not accept that case, however, we will find ourselves in the same position...