Word: admitedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think anyone pays a lot of attention to it," senior forward Tim Burke said. "But I have to admit that it's a little bit overdue. Going from sixth in the league to eighth in the country was quite a turnaround...
...that it is O.K. to admit the possibility, the search for sexual differences has expanded into nearly every branch of the life sciences. Anthropologists have debunked Margaret Mead's work on the extreme variability of gender roles in New Guinea. Psychologists are untangling the complex interplay between hormones and aggression. But the most provocative, if as yet inconclusive, discoveries of all stem from the pioneering exploration of a tiny 3-lb. universe: the human brain. In fact, some researchers predict that the confirmation of innate differences in behavior could lead to an unprecedented understanding of the mind...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for beating the system, 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...
...courtrooms are public places. So is the Oval Office, and George Bush need not admit Sam Donaldson whenever Sam wants an interview. Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School is a public place, and free press doesn't mean that Channel 5 can demand to broadcast geometry classes. News crews could claim, plausibly, that unwatched teachers gets away with sloppy teaching and that public interest requires press coverage. No government official will censor a story about poor math instruction in Massachusetts high schools. But nobody expects 15-year olds to concentrate on trapezoids while the cameras roll. And free press does...
...convinced that the reforms he began in 1985 were "historically correct." But, he added, "there were mistakes made that could have been avoided, and many of the things that we did could have been done better." His severe gaze and impenetrable self-assurance hardly wavered as he refused to admit that he and his office had become irrelevant. He could not even bring himself to say he was resigning; he had decided, he said, to "discontinue my activities" out of "considerations of principle...