Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national survey, conducted for TIME by the polling firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, found that 11% of U.S. adults admit having sampled cocaine, and one in four says that "someone close to me has tried it." Cocaine in the early 1980s has become a democratic craze instead of a high-society toot. Indeed, it is like the once exclusive vacation resort that the masses discover after its founding trendies have moved on: today, just as a lot of cosmopolites on both coasts are souring on cocaine, the drug is pushing its roots wider and deeper into America's social...
...officials readily admit that their interest in Craigie is "long-range," they say Harvard bought the property because of its proximity to the rest of the University. The current renovation plan is an optimal means to that end--the "new" Craigie would be owned by the developer, with the University profiting from a long-term ground lease while retaining control over the valuable plot itself. That means no responsibility as a landlord...
GOVERNMENTS, like people, don't like to admit they've been wrong--a fact that goes a long way in explaining many of the flabby political justifications that reach the public ear. What is less understandable, however, is why officials would acknowledge former sins only to compound that error by refusing to make amends for their evil ways--as the Supreme Court did last week with its decision involving the water rights of several Southwestern Indian tribes...
Even members of the center-right opposition admit that the four Communist ministers in Mitterrand's government have proved to be competent administrators. At weekly Cabinet meetings, the Communists usually limited their questions to matters concerning their own portfolios in the ministries of transport, health, civil service and vocational training. Says a ranking Elysée official: "They were so accommodating, so nose-to-the-grindstone that we sometimes forgot they were there." Fears that the Communists might get hold of state secrets turned out to be groundless because defense planning is not discussed in the Cabinet...
...Bulgarians, predictably, dismissed Mantarov's account. An embassy spokesman in Rome described Mantarov as nothing more than a mechanic formerly employed by a Bulgarian firm in France. Mantarov, meanwhile, has dropped out of sight. French intelligence officials refused to admit last week that they had ever spoken to him, let alone that he had told them anything about the Bulgarian connection. Mantarov is most likely still in French custody and living under a false name...