Word: admitedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Surprisingly, even many loyal gang members admit that their ranks would be thinned if quitting wasn't so dangerous. "People want to get out of gangs, but they're afraid of getting whooped," says Enirque Quiroz, 20, a hard-core member of the Latin Kings in Chicago. Quiroz, a lumbering fellow who has been shot at 12 times, jailed five times, sliced in the elbow and the chin and had his hands broken with a bat, is exactly the kind of guy who makes getting out so problematic. Although he acknowledges some qualms about cracking the heads of close friends...
...convention speech by Ronald Reagan. That would until recently have been considered a surefire way of rallying the troops with memories of glory. But every reaffirmation of Reaganism traps Bush more helplessly in the real Reagan legacy -- the deficit that Reaganites are prevented from addressing. They cannot even admit it is a problem without being called defectors from the great man's cause. Reagan will come to forgive George Bush for raising taxes -- and to make sure he never does it again. Which means that Bush will be as weak in a second term as in the first. Realists...
...weeks ago, the Bush-Quayle campaign dispatched Gov. Carroll A. Campbell of South Carolina to Washington to bash Clinton, but when faced with questions about regulation, he had to fudge. Campbell at first said a Clinton administration would mean regulatory horrors. But then he had to admit that Bush-approved legislation meant huge regulatory increases--and he had to defend Bush's signatures on the bills. It was classic double-speak...
...each would like to be rid of the other. They've been doing their best on both fronts. After days of hard negotiation at the United Nations, the three-week showdown over whether a U.N. inspection team would gain access to the Iraqi Agriculture Ministry ended. Baghdad agreed to admit a team of inspectors -- with one important catch: the building would still be barred to inspectors from the U.S. or any other nation that fought Iraq in the Gulf...
...while some of them are reluctant to admit it, few doubt that a high proportion of summer school students comes here aching to spend four more years in the Yard's classrooms. Elizabeth C. Hewitt, director of the secondary school program at the summer school, estimates that "more than half" of the high school students who arrive here hope to stay...