Word: admited
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Even so, climate modelers admit, building a completely realistic mock earth is an impossibly tall order. "You divide the world into a bunch of little boxes," explains Michael MacCracken, an atmospheric scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The size of the geographic box -- the degree of detail called for -- limits the model. Smaller grids dramatically increase the number-crunching power required. "The state of the art would be to get down to small areas so we can say what's going to happen in Omaha," says Livermore's Stanley Grotch. "The models just aren't that good...
Columbia has never been the same team again. Last Saturday's record-breaking loss to Princeton was the lowest point of Columbia's nine-year losing slide. I've come a long way since the 1979 game at Brown, but I'll admit that I still root for the first football team I ever liked...
Even USA Today's most acerbic critics admit that the paper is a testament to the energy of Allen Neuharth, 63. In the paper's early months, he banged out headlines and sent hundreds of peach-colored notes critiquing each day's issue. Said an editor: "When Al wants to water-ski, we all row a little harder...
...Senator Biden in a way that demonstrated how Biden had been plagiarizing Kinnock's words. Distribution of the tape could have been defended as a proper revelation that raised legitimate questions about Biden's ability to be President. True, it would have been severely embarrassing for any campaign to admit taking shots at Biden on the eve of the hearings he conducted on Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court. , Furious Democrats regarded the video as undermining the effort to defeat Bork, an important party cause. Even so, the embarrassment would have been minor compared with what actually occurred...
...University doesn't want to suffer the indignity of dealing physically with an audience. Harvard officials are reluctant to admit that anyone would want to protest physically. They would like all protest in writing and obviously cannot grapple with protest that goes beyond the scope of academia into the realm of heated emotion...