Word: admits
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...days. It’s not as though I’ve become a Hemingway fanatic overnight. I haven’t: I still hate Hemingway as a person; I still find him despicable; I still take issue with his cynical worldview. But yes, I now can admit that he is a powerful writer. I’ll no longer bash him utterly and completely—just mostly. —Sanders I. Bernstein
...realized how so many people could think this was simply a song about smoking. The lyrics are, more or less, “If you smoke, just smoke Zhong Nan Hai / Life takes off with Zhong Nan Hai.”Though they never could admit it for fear of government persecution, their song has a veiled political message. They are—very delicately, of course—connecting one controlling, harmful and popular force (tobacco) to another (their government). Angst and rebellion may not be central to the culture, but after a summer living in the People?...
...Senate compromise bill will face several hurdles when it comes to the floor next week (some Democrats worry that it may be scuttled by a group of Senators headed by McCain's friend Lindsey Graham of South Carolina). And even if the Senate bill does pass, Democratic aides admit that at this late date, it may have as little impact on voters as drilling itself will have on gas prices by Election...
...does admit some reservations...
...executive floors]," says a 31-year-old analyst. After two years at Lehman, he arrived at work Monday morning without any idea of what might happen beyond what he read in the Wall Street Journal. "The really top execs screwed up very badly," he says. "They wouldn't admit defeat. They were macho. Absolute power corrupts absolutely - that kind of thing." Asked whether management had made any announcements on the firm's next steps, another employee responded: "No, but it's over...