Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trustees of Princeton University have filed a strongly worded exception to a judge's non-binding recommendation that two all-male eating clubs be able to keep their long-standing admission policies and not admit women, so long as they sever ties with the university...
There the vote likely will be on an up-or-down disapproval resolution. While Democrats control the Senate and may be able to pass the measure by a simple majority, vote counters admit they cannot rally the two-thirds majority needed to override a certain Reagan veto...
...statistics are nothing to celebrate: 58% of high school seniors admit to having tried illegal drugs at least once. But the percentage of students experimenting with illicit drugs actually dropped last year -- as it has every year but one since 1978. That encouraging news comes from the twelfth annual survey on teenage drug use conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research...
...Iranscam that the Tower commission pinned squarely on him, confess blunders on his own part as well as by his staff, and follow up quickly by submitting to the battering of the press at a news conference. Says one aide: "First, he has to go on television and admit that he blew it, that if he had it to do over, he certainly wouldn't do it again. Second, he's got to take his lumps at a press conference." There is, however, one adviser whose word weighs heavily with the President who partly disagrees: Nancy Reagan. The First Lady...
...been devising a strategy to somehow save this thing, but after this report, it's all over. We need to start thinking about evacuating the contras, figuring out what to do with them now that they won't be fighting a war." Reagan is unlikely ever to admit that. Some close aides see only two alternatives to continued help for the contras: an outright U.S. invasion of Nicaragua or an unsatisfactory political settlement with the Sandinistas. They sometimes talk as if they do not know which would be worse...