Word: admitedly
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Infomercial producers admit there have been some abuses but claim the industry has cleaned up its act. Early pioneers of the genre "came mainly from print advertising," says Gene Silverman, vice president of Hawthorne Communications, a leading producer of infomercials. "They brought their over- the-line methods with them." The industry has since formed a trade organization and fashioned its own content guidelines, similar to those proposed by government regulators. Among them: the programs must be clearly labeled as commercials, and product claims must be carefully substantiated...
Rock rules again. And you didn't even know it had abdicated, did you? Admit it: you haven't been paying attention. And that's part of the problem...
...seeing a fundamental, almost revolutionary shift in what exactly is the mainstream for pop music. New musical ideas continue to come from the inner city instead of rural areas." Pressed hard, Barnes will paint the musical future as "a fusion of dance, funk and rap," and admit, "Rock will never die, but it will become a minority music." Geffen Records president Eddie Rosenblatt scoffs at such predictions. "People have been saying rock 'n' roll is dead since the third Elvis Presley album," he insists. "It's a broad area of music. It will continue to be that...
...ground. So the managers of the Hubble Space Telescope didn't know there may have been something wrong with the mirror's shape, and the launch officials didn't know O rings could stiffen in the cold. It is no knock on the spacemanship of the astronauts to admit that space is a difficult and dangerous place -- just on the salesmanship of the agency that put them there. NASA's strategy resembles George Bush's in the Persian Gulf: get the troops over there, and then the people will have to support them. NASA has always believed...
Hospital administrators and doctors, who give interviews in rooms invariably decorated with a portrait of Saddam Hussein smiling benevolently, are often reluctant to admit the extent of the health disaster they are witnessing. But signs of distress are everywhere. Many hospitals were damaged by allied bombing, including three in Baghdad and two in Basra. Completely destroyed was the only hospital in the country that performed kidney transplants and advanced heart surgery. In other cases, physical damage to medical facilities was caused by the civilian uprisings that followed...