Word: acceptant
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Though the racers accept the inherent dangers of their sport, some think that safety could be improved. "If the safety was in place correctly, that kind of stuff wouldn't happen," says America's Picabo Street, who won silver in the downhill at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer and gold in the super-G at the 1998 Nagano Games. The FIS, recognizing that skis are getting faster and that skiers could fly beyond the limits of the nets, regularly recommends modifying courses by shaving the lips of jumps and setting gate controls before jumps to slow the racers down...
...Simply to accept the status quo is not acceptable professional conduct,” the report concludes...
University President Lawrence H. Summers announced yesterday that he will accept the significant pay hikes recommended by the high-ranking committee convened to examine workers’ wages...
...Golden Globe-winning star of “Sex and the City” and the actor of “Die Hard” fame will travel to Cambridge this February to accept their “pudding pots” and to be “roasted” by the theatrical group...
West’s attempt to, in effect, force Summers to accept his perspective on this (or indeed any) issue seems to run counter to the very foundations of a free and open society—the kind of society which, ironically, affirmative action attempts to create...