Word: acceptant
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...sleepy and a little dazed and confused,” Peng laughs. “So I didn’t sound that excited on the phone. But after I got off I realized what was going on.” Peng didn’t accept the offer that night. With a few more final-round interviews to go, she wanted some time to check her instincts...
...enough for pain and suffering in the case of her now fatherless nephew. "Have you ever seen a 12-year-old have a nervous breakdown?" she asks. Another woman concocts an analogy to illustrate for Feinberg what it was like to talk to loved ones as they came to accept their imminent, violent deaths and to watch the towers collapse on live TV. "If your wife was brutally raped and murdered and you had to watch and listen to it happen, what would you think the right amount would be?" Finally, Maureen Halvorson, who lost her husband and her brother...
...Olympics. There was no reason, because it wasn't like I would win an award or anything. But then I went to Cameroon and saw the suffering and it's really terrible out there. People are just so illiterate about the HIV/AIDS problem. They don't accept that it exists. So I thought, I can punish my body, almost like I am sacrificing myself. I want to ski for a reason, to let them open their ears and listen. I want to tell people that they really have to watch out, that AIDS is serious. If people don't start...
Gilbert Harman, chair of Princeton’s philosophy department, said the school hoped Pryor would accept the offer...
...talk to the former Enron CEO, but he doesn't want to talk to Congress, and now even his lawyer can't find Lay. Attempting to force Lay to appear before Congress, the House Financial Services Committee contacted Lay's attorney, Earl Silbert, who said he couldn't accept a subpoena because he didn't know where Lay was. The Senate went ahead anyway, voting Tuesday to subpoena Lay to appear before the Commerce Committee...