Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report ignores the relationship of birth control to the success of the poverty programs. I am a Public Health nurse and have seen The Other America. It is a world of hundreds of children lost in the death of rejection and deprivation, women who fear pregnancy, and families who admit that an expected child is unwanted but are resigned to keeping it. Efforts to create a Great Society will never succeed unless the people of poverty are free to prevent the birth of innocent children into a world that cannot provide for them and does not want them...
...Oxford the greatest? A 914-page report released last week after a two-year study of that hallowed institution by seven top Oxford University scholars offers enough criticism to suggest that much is wrong-perhaps more than such an inside group wants to admit...
While doctors themselves are ready to admit that they can make mistakes, they generally react to criticism by pointing out that their patients 1) are getting just about the best medical care anywhere, and 2) are foolishly sentimental about the "old days." The U.S. will spend an estimated $44 billion on its medical care this year, and is currently spending over $1 billion in research. Its surgical skills and lab techniques are unsurpassed. As for complaints about the decline in home care, most doctors frankly think that the oldtime house call was largely a waste of time. They point...
...presenting these proposals, the HPC is in effect asking the members of the Gov Department to admit that imparting a specialized knowledge of their field is not their only, nor even necessarily their most important, function. That is a lot to ask of scholars. But the proposals were made in a constructive rather than critical spirit, and by giving them careful consideration the Department could make a real contribution to liberal education in a time of over-specialization...
...easy smile and a classic Roman profile. The skiing and boating pal of everyone from the Aga Khan to Jacqueline Kennedy, he is married to willowy Princess Marella Caracciolo. Italian Communists claim that he is the richest man in Europe, which Agnelli says is "complete nonsense." But he does admit: "I'm the man who pays the highest taxes in Italy...