Word: admits
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...just admit it: the Nintendo people are total geniuses. I was one of the first journalists to see the Wii, in Kyoto in the spring of 2006. I even tried it out. I played fake mime-tennis. I caught a virtual fish by casting with the Wii controller. I did a little dance and watched a little guy do a little dance on the screen. At the time my thoughts were as follows: 1) Technologically speaking, this is a pretty amazing hack; 2) too bad the graphics suck; and 3) nobody will buy this ever. And 4) at least...
...nice. In its impatience the electorate underestimated Bush’s determination and the resourcefulness of the American military. By the time the surge had brought victory in Iraq, the American people had made up their minds, and with Bush-like stubbornness, weren’t about to admit that they had been wrong...
...December 1984 marked year when the presidents of the then-nine final clubs decided to disassociate from the University rather than admit women. But though the official bridge across the Mass. Ave. divide has been burned, relations between the University and the clubs remain complicated...
...first the clubs stalled.But on May 9, 1984 the Committee on College Life set an October 1 deadline for the clubs to decide whether they would admit women or separate. After several extensions of the deadline, on December 8, club presidents met with a subcommittee and indicated they were ready to sever ties, according to a Crimson article from that year...
...most parents of small children will reluctantly admit, nothing can occupy a child quite like television. Unfortunately, the scientific evidence suggests that using the boob tube as a babysitter has its price: the more time babies spend sitting in front of the screen, the more their social, cognitive and language development may suffer. Recent studies show that TV-viewing tends to decrease babies' likelihood of learning new words, talking, playing and otherwise interacting with others...