Word: admit
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Even those who disdain the American system admit now their own is badly broken. President Jacques Chirac of France, who hosted a jobs summit last week of the seven rich industrial countries, called for a "third path" between the too cozy welfare state and the "precarious" U.S. labor market. Taking the American approach immediately is simply not an option. "Any political party that tried would run into a cultural wall upholding public service, entitlements, paid vacations and so forth," says Jean-Marie Chevalier, a University of Paris economics professor. "They'd be kicked...
Mahon denies any direct role in the bombing. He does admit knowing Strassmeir but rejects any suggestion that his German friend was a government informant. "When you get drunk with a guy over a period of days, you get to know him," says Mahon. "Andi never pried into my activities; we just sat around talking about how much we hate the government...
Bakal is ready to admit that the advising system is completely inadequate, but it is not irreparable. With the establishment of a strong advising system the daily operations of being a student are made easier and more comprehensible. This issue has been too big for the ever seemingly powerful and intelligent but really useless and retarded Council to handle before Bakal...
Members of the Lampoon admit to legally entering the Canaday A basement in order to produce the parody of the Independent. Lampoon members who were also on the Independent staff supplied the keys...
...Bronco chase, and both writers float rumors that juror Francine Florio-Bunten was dismissed under suspicious circumstances. Shapiro also reveals that the defense team offered to have Simpson take a lie detector test at the outset, knowing full well that the prosecution would never agree to admit the results, whatever they were, into evidence. And he describes the moment when he realized that Simpson, due to turn himself in to the police, had vanished: "I don't think there was anyone in that room who didn't believe ... that O.J. had gone off to kill himself." (Noting that Simpson signed...