Word: admit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...help make ends meet, Penn threw open its doors to vermin like me, admitting 4,491 students, a thousand more than in 1970. I wasn't aware of this either, but Penn clearly was and no doubt looked upon my class the way a bankrupt duchess might view the tourists using her castle as a bed-and-breakfast. Universities may lack the profit imperative that drives corporations, but they are just as fiercely competitive, always striving to get the best students, the best scholars, the best grants in order to attain the most prestige. Like every other top-tier institution...
...what's the big deal about getting dressed up in tight, uncomfortable clothes and paying exorbitant prices for the privelege of bouncing around a fancy ballroom to the same music that you're embarrased to admit you own on a mix tape at home? Why would anyone want to do the "Macarena" in high heels...
According to Bahat, the biggest constraint on how many groups the organization can admit is the number of vans PBHA owns...
...victim of a hoax by a "person [who] has it in" for the paper. He relayed his client's reaction as, "Well, there's a practical joke every week." Later, Jones told TIME the disclosure was "very clever. We can't deny it, and we can't admit it." The protestations came even as defense and prosecution said the revelations would have no effect on the trial. Still, Jones says he will ask for an inquiry to see if his client's right to a fair trial has been violated...
...fertilization? In both those cases, after all, an undeniable reductiveness is going on, a shriveling of the complexity of the human body to the certainty of a single cell in a Petri dish. If we accept this kind of tinkering, can't we accept cloning? Harvard neurobiologist Lisa Geller admits that intellectually, she doesn't see a difference between in vitro technology and cloning. "But," she adds, "I admit it makes my stomach feel nervous...