Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...independent research organization, is no advocate of Palestinian independence. But he believes government officials are ignoring reality when they deny there is widespread support for the Palestinian cause. "They're still trying to define it as the work of a small group of agitators," he says. "They can't admit that it's broadly popular because they will not face that problem." A number of U.S. Jews, profoundly disturbed by the riots and how they were handled, agree. Said Hyman Bookbinder, a longtime leader of the American Jewish Committee: "Most of us do understand the frustrations of the Palestinians...
...attacking the press for its inquisitiveness, Hart sought to immunize himself against titillating new exposes. For the moment, the strategy seemed to be working. After publishing photographs of Hart dallying with Donna Rice and watching him admit his marital infidelity on Nightline, journalists were adhering to an informal prohibition against double jeopardy. Last spring the Washington Post confronted Hart with evidence of his having a long-running affair with a Washington woman. Hart withdrew and the story never ran. The Post decided not to name names, and nothing more is in the works. "I can't go out and find...
...usually loath to leave. Although she had been sexually abused for months by her boyfriend, 29-year-old Nancy, now a California artists' representative, pretended that nothing was wrong. "Here I was supposed to be this strong, independent woman who subscribed to Ms. and carried around a briefcase. To admit it was to admit that I had failed as a businesswoman," she says...
...women in the mistaken belief that they are simply overwrought or exaggerating. When a Los Angeles woman who endured weekly beatings throughout a 31-year marriage finally confided in her physician, she says, "he just looked at me strangely and changed the subject. Professionals don't want to admit that they, as a group, are not perfect...
Some students actually work to prevent the system from working by providing less than accurate information. Rather than admit their faults, some freshmen write "idealized versions of the truth" on their housing forms, she says...