Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Olympics have become the world's biggest stage-a billion people are expected to view the spectacle on television. As long as that is true, Olympic officials admit, the oil-and-water mixing of politics and sport will continue. With the 1972 Palestinian terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at Munich all too vividly in mind, there was little criticism of the armed-camp atmosphere at Olympic sites when the 7,200 athletes-and 3,000 functionaries-began arriving...
...women and 19% of the men admit that their sex lives are unsatisfactory...
...women and 19% of the men admit that they fake orgasms...
...last week that if the urgency of cancer research is used to battle for an immediate go-ahead for recombinant DNA, then the issues are being misrepresented. The DNA research being done now is still basic, years away from practical application to cancer. Most scientists when pressed will admit to that. "If there is no great social need," Mendelsohn says, "why don't you take the time to lower the risk...
...vote the court held that nonreligious private schools may not refuse to admit students because of their race. The majority rejected the contention that "parental interests" in the education of children were absolutely protected by the right of privacy. It noted that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 guaranteed blacks and whites alike the right to "make and enforce contracts" on an equal basis. This right, the majority held, applies to a private school's enrollment contract. For the hundreds of so-called white academies that sprang up after public school desegregation, particularly in the South, the new decision...