Word: admitedly
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Public officials must take responsibility for their actions. When they screw up, they should admit it. When they lie, they should face the consequences...
...emblematic of the South's segregationist past than Selma, Alabama, where black Baptist clergyman Martin Luther King Jr. led a climactic civil rights march in 1965. But a racial line has now disappeared in Selma, as delegates from 24 congregations in Alabama's dominant Southern Baptist faith voted to admit the Freedom Baptist Church as the first black member of the city's Baptist association. Said newly entering pastor Letha Rumph: "I can see that a revival has begun in Selma." A white colleague, the Rev. Ron Davis, chimed in: "God won't let us fail...
CAMPAIGN QUIZ Q The whirlwind round of debates produced such memorable one-liners as "I'm all ears" (Ross Perot) and "If I make a mistake, I admit it" (George Bush). Which candidates made these less-often-repeated statements? A "You can read my plan ... I will not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for these programs...
...also in June that Clinton (with heavy prodding from Hillary) reorganized his staff. Until then, the campaign structure had so many fancy titles and overlapping duties that decisions had to be made by consensus -- or not at all. Carville, who admitted that he had often been "disengaged" since the New York primary, helped shape the re-organization by doing what for him was the unthinkable: he wrote a memo. Titled "the Clinton Action Team," the document outlined what would become the famous quick-response war room, designed to crank out swift replies to any Republican charges. Clinton belatedly made...
...American banks stable enough to be lending again? The issue of the industry's health came into the spotlight once more last week when Ross Perot ( suggested during the last presidential debate that the U.S. banking system is in worse shape than the government cares to admit. "Right after Election Day this year, they're going to hit us with a hundred banks . . . a $100 billion problem," he declared. The candidate was referring to a new regulation taking effect Dec. 19 that requires regulators to crack down on banks whose net worth, or capital, is less than 2% of assets...