Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Koppel denies that the program is meant to be educational. "I assume our viewers are intelligent." Koppel says. "But like Mark Twain said. All people are ignorant about some things.' But to admit that 'Nightline' is an 'educational program' would be to sound its death knell. Television generally does a pretty lousy job with information and--God forbid--education...
Although I tried not to admit it, I was also rather bewildered by my classmates. A few, I sensed, were as terrified as I was, although I was certain that none experienced the pure panic I did when I sat down to take my first hour examination. Others arrived with a worldliness I found unimaginable and a range of experience which persuaded me that the world in which I had grown up, suburban Boston, was very limited indeed. Many coming from outside the Northeast were without any "Eastern" pretensions. Understanding the Harvard admissions process only dimly. I assumed that each...
...interests in the College. Some, like my Palo Alto friend, want to know about comparative mischief. Others are interested in what happens in the classroom, in social life, or athletics, or the socio-economic or geographic profiles of the classroom, or students' intended occupations. My own interests, I must admit, are more in the present and the future than the past While I retain a great interest in the arts, which first emerged in college, new topics come along which I find equally rewarding. Athletics, for example, which I experienced minimally twenty-five years ago through the freshman physical training...
...Gerri passes all the tests," says Congresswoman Barbara Kennelly, a Connecticut Democrat. "She is photogenic, she is bright, she has worked, she has brought up children, she is the right age." But is she qualified to be Vice President? Ferraro is the first to admit that she is being considered mainly because of her gender, not her qualifications. But she adds, "If I weren't capable of doing the job, I wouldn't be talked about." Naysayers bemoan her lack of expertise in arms control and foreign policy. Ferraro feels the Budget Committee has been a crash course...
...suggest that shortly after the Greeks abandoned the Games, their empire crumbled. If we were to do the same as the Greeks, then we would in effect, admit that our international system is incapable of associating with itself. To throw in the towel would be an acceptance of the futility of striving to achieve diplomatic accord. When the Greeks threw in the towel, accepting that they could no longer get along with each other, their culture deteriorated...