Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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F.D.N. leaders admit that covert U.S. aid accounts for more than 50% of their organization's total funding. Independent estimates of the covert U.S. portion, however, run closer to 75%. Without Reagan Administration funding, an F.D.N. spokesman estimates, the organization could keep fewer than 2,000 combatants in the field, down from 8,000 today...
...clubs are sexist by historical tradition, not by intentional malice--just as Harvard was a few years ago. Harvard has gradually been moving to the ideal of equality from men and women, and it is this example that must be followed. Final clubs do not admit women and therefore, by definition, are sexist, a gradual integration of women into the clubs is a good and necessary thing. However, now is not the time for those pseudo-idealists who profess a fundamental "opposition" to all the world's evils, to jump on the Pi Ett condemnation bandwagon in order to "expose...
Mondale's aides sensed that Hart could be rattled. Said one: "Hart is quite brittle. He can't admit mistakes. They are always the fault of some aide." They had little trouble persuading Mondale to take up the cudgel. "He warmed right up to it," marveled an aide. Mondale believed that he had Hart cowed...
Just three years ago this month, the Washington Post had to admit that its Pulitzer prize-winning story by Janet Cooke about an eight-year-old heroin addict was a hoax. The scandal shocked editors of the Wall Street Journal, which put a squad of reporters onto the story and emerged with a tough front-page report ("Lessons for All Journalists...
...really hard to imagine how one could make an argument that a single institution should be even more influential in the public government of the society than this one is. I believe that Harvard Law School graduates are very prominent in public service. Now, by public service. I do admit that I mean positions of influence and authority at all levels of government. Now that seems to me, in a democratic society, to be public service...