Word: admit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paranoid cab driver, Jerry, finally hits home with one of the many conspiracy theories he publishes in his newsletter titled, of course, "Conspiracy Theory." He is being trailed by an insidiously evil, Harvard-grad CIA psychologist, Dr. Jonas (Patrick Stewart), who wants to find Jerry and force him to admit what he doesn't exactly know he knows...
...will admit it's a task with a lot of pitfalls," says Neil Budde, editor of the Wall Street Journal's interactive edition and head of the steering committee. Budde says that if his group agrees to go ahead, it will have guidelines and procedures in place by September on how to win the coveted N rating. "We need to be open to what's happening in this medium and not just say we'd never agree to this in print," says Budde. But Paul Steiger, the print Journal's editor, has a better idea: Let anyone who wants...
Officials admit that the weakest link in the safeguards is the PIN itself which, if not protected by students, can open a hotbed of sensitive information. With another person's PIN and student I.D. number, someone could quickly download that person's grades without being detected--a loophole that worries administrators...
Taymor and the Disney executives admit that tensions were high before the first preview, which was attended by Eisner, on July 8, but they were greatly relieved when the show came off without a major hitch and drew an enthusiastic response from the audience. Theatergoers continue to burst into applause at least half a dozen times each night when they first glimpse Taymor's startling designs. Indeed, though the show has a way to go before it is ready for Broadway (some pruning of its 2-hr. 45-min. length would help), it is an ingenious and sometimes thrilling piece...
MIAMI: Bennett LeBow has coughed up another one of tobacco's dirty little secrets. The owner of the Liggett Group (Chesterfields, L&M, Lark, Eve), who was the first industry leader to admit to tobacco's ills when he crossed the party line in March, says he had been thinking about going public for years, and that $10 million a year from big brother Philip Morris helped keep him quiet. In 1995, with tobacco companies embroiled in a massive suit with state attorneys general, Philip Morris came knocking on the door of his financially troubled company. The larger firm said...