Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grand Forks, North Dakota, eventually utters: You sure can't beat the quality of life here. Never mind that it's like Siberia for half the year and that the only rise in the land is the curve of the planet. Nature can be a witch, they would admit--even before the 500-year flood that submerged the town last week, forcing the evacuation of 50,000 people and sparking fires that destroyed half the historic business district. Still, you just can't beat it. And it took no more than a day or two of watching Grand Forks begin...
...automatic cost of living adjustment (COLA) would guarantee a yearly adjustment for market dips, but opponents compare it to writing a blank check, and supporters admit that the actual cost of living could rise more than the fixed COLA adjustment...
Harvard University has a problem, and everyone seems anxious to admit it: the number of tenured women professors is unacceptably small...
...remember setting off for Russia with a rather strong sense of what it means to be a feminist. I admit that I had a sort of Western superiority complex in that I didn't understand how, in these times, a woman could stay at home with the children and feel whole. "If I did that," I thought, "I would certainly feel as if I was missing out on half of life's experiences." I thought that I would be a little imperialist and teach Russian women to be liberated. What a disgusting idea, especially since exactly the opposite happened--they...
...laws that might have been broken apply to donations given "to influence a federal election." They say the laws have been applied only to contributions for a specific candidate, not to the millions in so-called soft money given for party activities. All the same, most donors would admit that, no matter what channel their cash flowed through, they gave to elect Clinton or Dole. But Reno could trigger the independent-counsel statute by finding a conflict of interest that prevented her department from investigating the matter. William Barr, Attorney General under George Bush and a past critic...