Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After two months, I was worried. SIMS refuses to admit that meditation won't work for anyone, but they do train meditation "checkers" who can diagnose any minor problems that might be temporarily impeding success. So I made an appointment for a check-up. I went to a Back Bay apartment and was checked by a girl in her bedroom--that is, we meditated together there in the dark...
...necessarily a critical one, I answered. And I had been optimistic in the beginning, and besides, Jarvis had stressed that a person's attitude toward meditation was completely irrelevant. Was Geer willing to admit that, contrary to Jarvis, some people couldn't be reached by meditation...
...many of his proposals are original. His answer to poverty boils down basically to jobs, which is roughly what everyone else is saying, but unlike many other liberals, he opposes a guaranteed annual income. "To give priority to income payments," he argues, "would be to admit defeat on the critical battlefront of creating jobs." He wants to raise social-security benefits and finance part of the increase from general revenue. He wants better housing and welfare programs. His ideas about how to finance all this are debatable. Tax loopholes must be closed, he says, starting with a minimum 20% levy...
...vote-an amazing and significant showing, as Republican Governor Norbert Tiemann put it. Tiemann, to be sure, exaggerated Reagan's performance. Nebraska is Tory turf, and Reagan's conservative theme was more enthusiastically received there than it might have been elsewhere. Still, even Nixon was forced to admit that the Californian did "very well...
Plainly taken aback by his decision to come, the Czechoslovaks at first announced that Kosygin, as though he were any idle jet-setter, had merely slipped into town for a "short holiday" and a dip in the healing waters of the local spas. They had to admit soon enough that Kosygin really had come for "a continuation of an exchange of views" on Czechoslovak matters. At the first exchange with Dubcek, President Ludvik Svoboda and other officials, Kosygin reported that their reforms were "meeting with understanding" in Moscow-presumably a reassurance...