Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Doctors never like to admit that doctors may be wrong. But in the case of the swine flu program reluctance, especially on the part of government officials, to admit to mistakes has approached a level reminiscent of the methods of the Vietnam War policy makers. As in the Vietnam days, there has been an unwillingness to listen to outside opinions; a pattern of decisionmaking by a small group; an intolerance of dissenting views, both within and outside the government; and an inability to reevaluate policy as circumstances changed. Although the swine flu fiasco at times seemed laughable, amateurish, the reasons...
...civilizations of the African continent without the pressure of vocal militants. How perfectly consistent that American colonizers would ignore all the history of a continent before their own rape of that continent. How indeed could a place like Harvard recognize the legitimacy of African studies when it refused to admit any serious proportions of blacks until relatively recently...
...Afro-American studies. One of the tasks (a "detailed charge") he assigned the committee was the investigation of "a possible field of undergraduate concentration, held together by the centrality of concern for African and Afro-American subject matter." A self-styled "expert" in the field, Rosovsky chose to both admit this "detailed charge", and then sabotage it by dividing the committee into two subcommittees, one to explore African studies and the other to explore Afro-American studies. This was Rosovsky's first failure to act as a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and represented his strong tendency...
...angry report stems from the EPA's response-or lack of it-to a law passed by Congress in 1972 requiring the agency to re-examine and reregister 40,000 pesticides on the U.S. market by October 1976, which later was extended by a year. Subcommittee staffers admit that the EPA lacked sufficient manpower and funds to complete the job in so short a time. But they charge the agency with poor planning and management, unnecessary delays, opting for shortcuts in evaluating pesticides and making misleading statements to Congress and the public...
...volcano of hatred that relieves itself in violent sexual expression. In most histo-romances, the climax is the kiss, but Rogers realistically noted that a new mass market for pornography exists -and that vast numbers of respectable women would become avid customers if only they did not have to admit that what they were purchasing was porn. So R.R. perfected the soft-edge sex scene in which, just as the worst is about to happen, all the heavy breathing seems to steam the reader's glasses and the details fade discreetly into daydreams...