Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hampers' greatest coups was forcing Crane to admit that he received more than the annual $130,000 he claimed from Merkert...
Pasted across the cover of the most recent issue of The New Republic, this so-called ethical dilemma has been making headlines nationwide ever since Washington Postcolumnist Richard Cohen wrote about the issue in early September. Apparently, many Washington jewelers have chosen not to admit young black men, and, according to Cohen, that's just fine. After all, these people commit an inordinately large percentage of robberies, and business is business. It's not racism, just common sense...
...respondents are not able to escape the normative issues at hand. While Blacks commit more crime than whites, the difference between men and women, and between the young and the old, is much more significant. Why do we not hear of high-crime white neighborhoods where jewelers refuse to admit men or young people...
...really respect him for having the guts to admit that things were not great," she said...
...principal challenge is how to avoid squandering its new political strength in South Africa and its heightened prestige abroad. On one hand, it must keep up pressure on the South African government if it is to retain its credibility and its following. On the other, even some A.N.C. leaders admit that a resort to more and more violence runs the very real risk of losing support, moral and otherwise, from the West and from whites in South Africa...