Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first query, even the GOP's own Hercules would admit the inadequacy of his law to handle labor problems in times of national stress. The government's dilemma is this; on one side there are production schedules which must be kept, on the other there is the constitutionally protected right to strike. The Taft-Hartley Law's injunction powers are worthless here because their use simply gives each side eighty days more to think up bigger and better arguments against each other. And if the Miners' strike of 1947 is any indication, the government cannot make an injunction stick anyway...
...Frankly admit your self-interest in striving to preserve the American free enterprise system...
Collins and his artillery experts admit that the A-cannon is just an interim weapon. Their long-range plans revolve around ground-to-ground guided missiles, another Army development project. These are still too inaccurate for any kind of close-in use. But when the aim is perfected, the missiles will doubtless outdate atomic artillery because they will exceed artillery's hitting power, and exceed its reach as well...
Limited staffs and facilities are the main reasons the local units will not admit a larger group of new men. The size of the College units is decided by superior headquarters. The Air Force and Army each have already asked for an additional officer. One man, however, is not felt to be enough to allow additional expansion of either unit beyond the number of freshmen admitted this year...
R.O.T.C. members admit that they do not find the work very hard. Though times have changed since students used to join the Army unit just to use the horses to play polo, the courses still have the reputation of being easy. Finally, the University faculty acknowledged this in 1948 by giving only % credits to R.O.T.C. courses...