Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many employees openly admit to doing nothing to earn their pay. For a year and a half, a statistician at HUD earning $13,000 a year, and four equally idle coworkers, drank coffee, pondered crossword puzzles and listened to the radio. "Our supervisors were always telling us to look busy," she says. "But there's only so much you can pretend when you haven't got a damn thing...
Julie E. Fouquet '80, who introduced the motion, said yesterday it was meant as a compromise measure to allow the Corporation to take a public stand against banks operating in South Africa, without having to admit that banks are "too intransigent" to help promote progressive racial policies in that nation...
Haldeman does admit some wrongs. The coverup, he concludes, was "morally and legally the wrong thing to do-so it should have failed." But then he suggests that the problem actually was tactical-"Too many people knew too much"-and that the one man who knew the most (Richard Nixon) had not told his aides enough...
...before I go any further (have I gone far enough already?) I'll indulge in one--possibly obnoxious--disclaimer. I have almost always hated critics in general, and have never aspired to theater criticism myself. Hence, this is not really a review. I also admit that I have no quibble with the existence, raison d'etre, purpose, acceptability, or execution of this or any other Hasty Pudding Theatrical production. Quite the contrary: I found what I saw of A Thousand Clones to be a spiffily gotten-up, lively and reasonably humorous piece of light, if overlong, entertainment. Its authors...
When eighty students showed up last week at the first meeting of Dudley 108--a House seminar on "Thinking Like A Lawyer"--William L. Bruce '46, vice-dean of the Law School decided to forego the enrollment limit of 20 and admit all the applicants to the course...