Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...punishment persuaded the state legislature to pass a bill abolishing execution for all but two classes of murderers-cop killers and life prisoners who kill guards or inmates while in jail or while trying to escape. Governor Nelson Rockefeller sharply criticized those exceptions as morally indefensible. "If the proponents admit that the death penalty is a deterrent in some cases," he asked, "then why not in others...
...often become a falsified and un-humanizing issue. In our opinions of individuals we may ignore "racial" distinctions. But when we come to think of ourselves in the flux of history and in the sense that we are a function of groupings of mankind, then we must honestly admit the polarity of our feelings. Therefore, however erroneously "race" may have become a major theme of recent history, it does have practical significance; and it must be faced carefully and creatively--if we are ever to undo its consequences. The selection of the terms, African and Afro-American--rather than black...
...described is nothing short of amazing. In times such as these, when so many advances are being made in surgery, it is difficult to remember that these men are not gods but mortals. This work is not a cure-all for all occlusive artery diseases, but one must admit that it is still quite impressive. Your article was indeed succinct, informative, and impressive in its scope...
...Pampered Children. "Under the gen eral immigration law, Wirtz can admit foreign laborers if he is convinced that workers cannot be found on the domes tic market and if growers promise the same wages to all - now $1.40 an hour in California. He refuses, however, to admit the huge numbers that flowed in under the expired law (more than 100,000 braceros worked in California last year), bringing cries from California growers for his ouster. Despite the farm ers' complaints, Wirtz's office said, fewer than 10,000 foreign nationals have been requested under the general immigration...
...death, I admit, there would be a certain inevitable amount of devaluation. And yet, if his body were preserved and embalmed on that high throne, I have no doubt that the exchange rate would recover. The Paris money market--the scene of his greatest triumph--would become his permanent resting place. His spirit would pass from that earthly shell through the veins of the monetary system to all corners of the earth. His very being would animate each franc, each dollar, each ruble, rupee, and drachma. And, long after his death, statesmen would journey to inspect the great French general...