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Word: admittedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fitzsimmons attributed the rise in minority acceptances to a sharp rise in the number of minority students who applied through the early admit program this year. He did not quote specific figures, however...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Early Admissions Program Accepts More Minorities | 1/4/1979 | See Source »

...find Anthropologist Adrienne Zihman's study of chimp bones to discover a link between man and ape [Dec. 4] a complete waste of time, money and intelligence. Can you imagine all this after reading the Book of Genesis? Will evolutionists ever give up and simply admit that God created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 1, 1979 | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...year it fell just short of the halfway mark. Teng is characteristically candid about the problem. He refers to lo hou (lagging behind). "If you have an ugly face," he says, "there is no use pretending you are handsome. You cannot hide it, so you might just as well admit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Visionary of a New China | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Predictions like that are merely provocative fantasies, I admit - whimsical futurism. It could happen, or not. I am brought to the fantasy because I have been staring at the New York Times' endorsement of Hillary Clinton for the Senate - an extraordinary 13-paragraph exercise that takes up almost all of Sunday's editorial space. I have been studying the editorial as if it were a Polaroid snapshot, the film just exposed, still wet and murky, but with certain outlines starting to come clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary's First Step to a Second Clinton White House | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...cutting production to as little as one-fifth of the normal flow. Premier Gholam Reza Azhari went on television to appeal to the oil workers to go back to work, declaring that their strike was "bending the backs of 34 million Iranians." Azhari said he was "ashamed to admit" that petroleum-rich Iran was being forced to import kerosene, which most Iranians use for heating and cooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Hard Choices in Tehran | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

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