Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Policemen don't usually admit that they're stymied, but this time, the University Police are perfectly willing to agree that they haven't found any clues to the identity of the person or people who have been calling in false bomb threats over the last few months...
...those of other people; to this extent, Wills's comment is a fair one. But the book she has written is not, as Wills suggests, ineffectual protest; it is a powerful reminder of the agony caused by a senseless war that dragged on and on because no one would admit to making the initial mistake. So its personal tone may be one of the major elements of the book's power: Emerson is herself an example of the phenomenon she is describing, an odd thing not yet forgotten, someone whose life will never be the same. The war's effect...
...forbid workers to re-enter a field within 30 days of its use. A subsequent investigation has shown that Madera workers had been brought in to harvest as early as nine days after the initial spraying. . . . The effects of pesticide poisoning are severe, but treatable. State health physicians candidly admit, however, that they have little information regarding long-term effects or the results of continued exposure. When exposed to the pesticide Torak, for example, it takes the body more than two months to completely recover. (reported by Paul Shinoff in Labor Pulse, January...
Personally disparate-Arafat is spartan and hyperbolic, Hussein congenial and blunt-the two men otherwise have more in common than either cares to admit. Hussein rules a rather shaky dynasty that was created by Western powers after World War I; Arafat is the strongest chieftain in a fragmented Palestinian movement that is principally held together by hatred of Israel-and distrust of other Arab rulers. Both have a genius for survival, a talent for accommodation...
There are many more academically capable students applying to colleges and professional schools than the institutions generally have room to admit, but admission decisions should be based on more criteria, Steiner said...