Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy with regard to the Middle East and Iran. It is also very important that this particular President begin anew his relationship with the Congress." Robert Dole, the Republican leader, suggests that Reagan should simply concede he made a mistake. Those suggestions, however, assume that Reagan is ready to admit that the arms sales to Iran were a blunder. And the President so far is one of the few people left in Washington who will not concede any such thing...
During a picture-taking session in the Oval Office, Reagan made no secret of his unhappiness over news reports about back-biting among his staff, calls for resignations, and suggestions that he admit the Iranian initiative was a mistake...
...very good job of teaching their children about the facts of life: 69% of 1,015 Americans polled for Time last week by Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulman* said parents are not doing as much as they should to educate their children about sex; 39% of the parents who were polled admit they have had "frank and open" discussions about sex with their teenagers only a few times or not at all. Those questioned overwhelmingly support sex-education courses in school, and 47% of them said they wished they had been better informed about sex when they were teenagers. Some...
This is the mood in Solaris, Mirror and the other sanctuaries erected over the past quarter-century by Andrei Tarkovsky. The pleasures these films admit are rarefied: the meticulous placing of actors and objects in a frame, the charged and stately grace of a camera movement, the surreal images from someone else's dream. Yet you should also feel the spectacular unity of vision and visuals, of passion and method. Compared with The Sacrifice's art, the formal sophistication of even the best Hollywood movies seems superficially applied, like press-on nails and a styling...
...clear to me that a world in which no country will admit to having nuclear weapons and yet in which many countries can secretly build scores of weapons in a matter of months would be a safer world," said Ratner...