Word: admittedly
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Vanilla Extract. Most school officials are too embarrassed by the alcohol problem to do much more than reluctantly admit that it exists. One system that has faced up to it and conducted reliable surveys is in the suburban county of San Mateo, south of San Francisco. There, in 1970, school officials found, 11 % of the ninth grade boys (13-and 14-year-olds) said that they had drunk some kind of alcoholic beverage 50 or more tunes in the past year; in 1973 the figure had jumped to 23%. Among senior class boys (17-and 18-year-olds) the percentage...
...year. Instead of using professional therapists, the members help each other; one alcoholic is always on call to come to the aid of another. The treatment is nothing more sophisticated than the gathering together of a dozen or more other alcoholics who share their drinking histories and admit to themselves and each other that they are powerless to control their drinking. Members attend meetings as often as they feel the need. "My name is John," a member will intone at each meeting, "and I am an alcoholic." Says an Atlanta executive who has been a member for 25 years...
...Admit the treason of Mabedla...
...Instead of retrenchment, the usual means of meeting inflation, we are increasing economic activity by further incentives especially in exports and in foreign investments. The bankers-they are the no-risk fellows-have come here in hordes. Some companies have come in too fast, particularly Japanese. Let's admit it, the Japanese have outstripped the Americans. They are our biggest trading partner. If they increase any more, we'll be completely dependent on them...
...course this clod does not retain enough usable Latin to translate a tombstone, but he cannot admit it. What is excellent about the Nash translations, however, is not only that the English original is on the facing page (an indispensable prop to dignity) but that the poems are very short. This is a great advance over a famous similar confection of a few years back called Winnie IIle Pooh...