Word: acceptant
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...Democratic convention, then vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro stood before an audience half-filled with women, many of them crying, to accept her nomination. She wore a pastel pink suit, as if to say, “Get used to it—this is the new color of power...
...names or a clear chronology can confuse the reader, but man's sense of displacement is one of Kopperud's central themes. A Buddhist monk spells it out for the journalist: "Everything and everyone that comes together must sooner or later be parted, and until you are able to accept that, you will suffer." He suffers...
...Chen, the solution is clear. "No matter how many caf?s you try to close, new ones will always appear," he says. "The government should just accept that the Internet is here to stay." Then Chen gets back to interacting with his avatar, a 19th century warlord. And the name of Chen's online alter ego? "The Opium Smoker...
...felt like observing my way out of there, but I didn't. Why didn't I? Franny said these questions were fruitless: "You didn't and that's that. Don't mull it over. It does no good. You're dead and you have to accept...
...this is the most remarkable change of all; like adolescents slipping into adulthood, we have stopped demanding immediate answers and begun to accept there are some things we cannot know. Wednesday, an FBI agent told an interviewer he was worried that Americans are suffering from "alert fatigue;" and while that may be true, at least we can say we're still prepared for whatever comes. We're not sleeping much these days, but we're ready...