Word: admitedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admit that the excitement of having a "contending team" in the Year of the Scab might merit more than just an asterisk in the annals of baseball history, and that therefore some, if not most, of the excitement, of the season will disappear...
Aside from the University office, all 10 schools have their own development offices--which have been known in the past to compete with each other more than Harvard would like to admit. Also involved are hundreds of alumni volunteers who are responsible for most of the actual requests for money...
...more specifically linked to gridlock and to the budget deficit -- is a bit more subtle and more pernicious. And like the first one, it ultimately gets back to Madison. In addition to his dread of mass "passions," Madison had a second nightmare about "pure democracy": it "can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction...
...liberal labels. But that's not what's wanted in the media these days, especially in talk radio. They want you to be 100% confident that you have the truth and 100% predictable in your views. It's a comedy of clarity, a circus of certainty." But even to admit that an issue has two sides, as one Lehrer caller suggested, is to admit you're a liberal...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...