They only grudgingly accepted bills on gun control, hate crimes, pesticide notification and other subjects long embraced by the Assembly Democrats.

At the previous two stages of the journey the machines had accepted bills, of course, but Venator might order every transaction of that unusual sort reported to him.

Forfaiting involves a contract between the exporter and the forfaiter [probably a subsidiary of a major bank]to purchase accepted bills at an agreed discount at future dates, in normal circumstances without recourse to the exporter.