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Word: admited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Commonwealth to be Scoon's legal adviser, abruptly left Grenada after attacking the Governor-General as "quite unfit" to help restore democracy to the island. The leaders of Grenada's nine-member interim advisory council, which will administer the country until elections can be held, admit that they may be dangerously out of touch with some of their poorer countrymen who benefited from Bishop's rule. "The revolution's skills were 90% political," says one council member. "Ours are 90% administrative. It's not an easy transition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fare Well, Grenada | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

...capacity either to instruct or to move. Unable to prove a corporate conspiracy against Silkwood, or even individual violence by someone whose job was threatened by investigations, the movie must content itself with showing, without comment, mysterious headlights appearing behind her car just before the crash. And then admit, on a concluding title card, that an autopsy revealed a large amount of tranquilizers as well as a small amount of alcohol in the system of this demonstrably unstable woman. This is the most significant set of contradictory implications in a movie that is a tissue of them. And they leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tissue of Implications | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...technology is still comparatively primitive and untested. Even the proponents admit that a battle station firing laser beams could not be deployed much before the end of the century. Besides, the Administration wants to spend only $2.6 billion in fiscal year 1985, an almost negligible sum in the $250 billion annual defense budget, and all the money would be for research and development. Nonetheless, warns a prominent West Coast physicist, "when these projects get up a head of steam, they're almost impossible to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Step Closer to Star Wars | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

Journalists who admit that they are liberals-or conservatives-deny that their personal values show up in their reporting. Conservative critics reply that a newspaper's political leanings are evident in the choice and treatment of stories. Certainly there is often an edge to news

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journalism Under Fire | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...Bernstein sees herself as a continuing vocie of the '60s generation of protest, and refuses to admit she might have been just a "blip in history"--concluding. "If you're not angry when you're young, when are you going...

Author: By Steven M. Arkow, | Title: Her Own Footsteps | 12/10/1983 | See Source »

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