Word: acceptant
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...hope that Harvard students consider the implications of this weekend’s poll and reexamine their own opinions. If students are ready to support military action, they must be ready to accept its consequences. And if they are willing to enjoy the benefits of the national defense, they must not refuse when called to serve...
...Furthermore, Pakistan and other neighboring countries are controlling their borders tightly, meaning that bin Laden has few places to turn. His exact whereabouts may be unknown, but there is strong reason to believe that he and his cohorts remain in Afghanistan. Any responsible government in the same situation would accept international help in tracking down a network of terrorists––and would understand the demand of the nation attacked to particiate in the search...
...over a city, you could be "checkpointed" by camera when you board a train, stop at a cash machine and enter a store or the place where you work. "We are vulnerable," says Hoffman, "and there's a certain level of risk that we have to accept and live with. To me, the cure can be far worse than the disease...
...exuding matter-of-fact competence as they offered their services--water, bathrooms, food, telephones, first aid--to the thousands of anxious strangers passing by. A few of the regular clientele, people accustomed to walking the streets dazed and dirty, stood aside, watching their temporarily down-and-out fellow citizens accept handouts...
...Perhaps this is a definition of a terrifying kind of sanity, whether we want to wrap our minds around it or not. We can parse the lives of the suicides into subatomic bits and still not arrive at a why that we can accept. But it has happened once now. No peculiarity emerges from their tales, in character or plot, to indicate that it may not happen again...