Word: acceptibility
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What makes this election exciting is that despite the odds, a politician like McCain has a chance in this country. In Japan, where I emigrated from years ago, politics is decided by the establishment elites in nice restaurants and country clubs. People often just accept what the elites decide because they're too busy with their own lives. A lot of that happens here, too; but every once in a while Americans get off their couch. The people of New Hampshire expected the politicians to come into their town halls and school gymnasiums, answer their questions and listen to their...
...tolerant of everyone, yet they choose to be prejudiced against people they think are prejudiced. The elements against ROTC aren't kicked out, yet they won't allow ROTC back. It's a really tough issue." Porges adds, "Ideologically, if they're promoting tolerance of everyone, it should include accepting the military. I'm a little disturbed that people here don't accept something that's such a major part of my life...
Though the Trust will not accept applications for grants until next fall, it has been funding events on campus like the recent production of the Vagina Monologues at Agassiz Theater, with money from the Houghton Endowment...
Forbes campaigned on a 17 percent flat tax and a socially conservative platform with an anti-abortion stance. After 106 months of economic expansion in which the wealthy have gained more than their share, however, not even the rich could accept in good conscience the free ride that Forbes' tax plan offered them...
...biggest problem, actually," he told Good Morning America the day after the commercial aired, "is people who've been in a chair for a very long time, because in order to survive psychologically they've had to accept 'O.K., I'm going to spend my life in a chair...