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What no one in Wolfsburg wants to admit is that VW may have a broken business model in the U.S. Unlike BMW or Mercedes-Benz, VW can't charge the rich prices necessary to offset the cost of exporting from Germany. And unlike its German rivals, VW doesn't make cars in the U.S.--its one American plant shut in 1988--a problem given the dollar's slump versus the euro...
...long over. A price of “one cent” in 1946 is today a dime. Nowadays, it is impossible to find anything that costs a penny, other than one’s thoughts. Even most vending machines and other mechanisms reject this obsolete orange orb. I admit that people do sometimes use pennies. They throw them into fountains; they put them in the “take a penny, leave a penny” dish. But we don’t take the penny seriously as a unit of currency; when someone finds one on the ground...
PLEADED GUILTY. Bob Ney, 52, Republican Congressman from Ohio and the first lawmaker to admit guilt in the influence-peddling scandal surrounding lobbyist Jack Abramoff; to accepting money and gifts on the lobbyist's behalf in exchange for official favors; in Washington. Previously known for his successful push to rename french fries "freedom fries" in House cafeterias-a 2003 protest against France's opposition to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq-Ney faces up to 10 years in jail...
...keep my mouth shut and start planning my swearing-in ceremony. And yet, as the campaign progressed, I found him getting under my skin. For he claimed to speak for my religion - and although I might not like what came out of his mouth, I had to admit that some of his views had many adherents within the Christian church...
...going to be mainstream media and online,” said Huffington, co-founder of HuffingtonPost.com. But Kinsley, of Slate.com and a former vice president of The Crimson, told the crowd that the quality of some blogs is not up to par. “I think you would admit there’s a lot of crap that goes out on the Internet...from the proverbial guy in his underwear in the basement,” he said, eliciting laughter from the crowd. A more optimistic view prevailed, however: News readers are able to separate good from bad reporting?...