Word: admittedly
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...newspapers and holding interviews on campus but this ignores the necessary confidentiality to prevent infiltration by foreign intelligence agencies, the great loss of talent resulting from a 'passive' rather than an 'aggressive' search for potential employees and the special qualities needed for intelligence work. The CIA should also admit openly that it engages in secret recruitment on campus although in practice it will only so do if the universities agree the recuiters have the right to remain anonymous in order to forestall pressure to expose the academics concerned...
...obvious flaw of not having a remote-control method of adjusting a stuck valve. But human fallibility apparently was the more alarming shortcoming of what happened at Three Mile Island. Once the original on-site mistakes had been made, the blame spread to the NRC itself. Commission officials privately admit that they were slow to get an emergency crew with the necessary skill and authority to the scene of the disaster. Had the right men been there at the right time, three days before they finally did show up, they might have limited the damage and certainly would have reduced...
...colleges are finding special programs for minorities increasingly difficult to maintain. Not only are the costs and the legality of many minority-helping programs receiving new scrutiny, but there is a new uncertainty over their educational justification. Where once it seemed a school's moral duty to admit disadvantaged applicants, now the failure to discriminate between qualified and unqualified members of minority groups is widely denounced as harmful to the students, as well as to education generally. Where once it seemed crucial for previously all-white universities to bolster blacks' sense of their own racial history and culture...
Silber is the central figure in the controversy. Even his admirers admit he is tough, abrasive, and outspoken. His detractors charge he is corrupt, completely unreasonable, a dictator, and adjectives then become unprintable. Hundreds of students and faculty sport "Dump Silber" buttons and many people insist B.U.'s problems will not be resolved until the university has a new president. The trustees, however, support Silber and faculty leaders are willing to put up with him if they have a good contract guaranteeing them wage increases and the right to govern their own affairs...
...grades and scores are good. "We're trapped," sighs a committee member. There is laughter around the table, but no one doubts that keeping the alumni happy is worth it. After all, they pay for Brown's quality. Peter gets an "A 83"-A for admit; the 83 warns that a lop-off is still possible when Rogers re-examines legacy applications in April. The committee moves on to "John": "Third in his class, 730 verbal, a genuine interest in history," says Committee Member Steve Coon, "and he can hit the long ball...