Word: admits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tsunami that surprised Aesih (who survived after being tangled in cable and carried hundreds of yards down the beach) and so many other Indonesians revived questions about the country's early-warning system. Indonesian officials admit that no tsunami early warning system will be in place until the end of 2008, but deny that no warning was issued. "We issued a warning about the quake but not a tsunami," says Fauzi (he uses only one name), head of the Meterology and Geophysics Agency's technical department for tsunamis. He said the agency received an e-mail from the Pacific Tsunami...
...with thoughts and concerns about Gen Ed. Over the past year, the UC has pushed the College to move forward with the Curricular Review, which began in 2002 and has since been repeatedly delayed. “Every class that has to graduate with a curriculum that we all admit is flawed is getting the short end of the stick,” SAC Vice-Chair Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 said in an interview last week. —Johannah S. Cornblatt contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Brittney L. Moraski...
Reconciling his belief with his service to genetics proved easier for him than for many of his colleagues. Upon discovering the fibrosis flaw, he remembers feeling that "God had rained down his blessing." But in a profession only 8% of whose lite admit to believing in a God who answers prayer, he found that God talk could be something of a taboo. "Bring up faith and there's always a little sense of, Didn't you get the memo?" At least once a month he receives an e-mail from some lonely post-doc asking advice on being...
...watch. A senior Administration official tells TIME that the White House wants to set up new systems that will use efforts at democracy building as a condition for foreign aid and as a criterion for judging the work of U.S. ambassadors. But some officials inside the White House admit that the Administration's attention appears sporadic, limited to calling for elections but then failing to follow through on the tougher, more costly and less glamorous work of building institutions that can sustain democracies. Michael O'Hanlon, a senior foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, says, "The Administration...
...notes that one way in which an admit can have a negative effect and potentially be a “mistake” is if they destabilize students around them. “If you’ve ever seen rooming groups disintegrate, that can really affect a number of people, it can affect a whole entryway,” he says...