Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration seemed reluctant to admit that it had a problem on its hands. The President noted at his press conference that the Syrians had previously said they would leave Lebanon and that "a number of their Arab allies are urging them to stick with their word and to leave when all forces are prepared to leave." Earlier Reagan had told reporters at a White House photo session that "the opportunity shouldn't be allowed to slip away. The risks, if the withdrawal fails, are far greater than the risks of completing the withdrawal...
...male lawyers choose to underestimate her, that is fine with Houston's Diana Marshall, 35. "It happens constantly," she says. "And I'll admit, I've won a few cases by planting the notion that little old me wouldn't really take a case all the way to trial, without settling first. I'd spend all weekend preparing for trial while my opponent goes to the golf course." Such guile, plus prodigious energy, has enabled Marshall to become one of two women partners (out of 112) at the giant firm of Baker & Botts. Texas Judge...
...history's exception (and done no worse than much of a heavily armed and decidedly non-pacifist Europe). But to say, as Ho Chi Minn did in 1922, that Gandhi "would have long since entered heaven had [he] been born in one of the French colonies" is to admit that the failure of nonviolence may be the historical rule...
Throughout his four years here. Udo's toughest competition has not come from leapers from others schools, but rather from his own teammates, particularly Johnson. While Udo and Johnson admit that a rivalry exists, both described it as "friendly...
...like what his father did over dinner in Modesto. While providing entertainment, he has tried to instill in the young the old-fashioned virtues. "A lot of the stuff in there is very personal," he says. "There's more of me in Star Wars than I care to admit. I was trying to say in a very simple way, knowing that the film was made for a young audience, that there is a God and there is both a good side and a bad side. You have a choice between them, but the world works better...