Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...belongs to the Communists, despite the inevitably heavy losses such aggression means in the face of the allies' overwhelming superiority of firepower. Some 2,800 Communist troops were killed during the first week of January, the highest weekly toll for the war. Nonetheless, U.S. commanders readily admit that the enemy is firmly on the offensive and the allies almost entirely on the tactical defensive, reacting to preplanned enemy attacks...
...example. When the Detroit riots erupted last summer, Johnson had a splendid opportunity to rally the nation. Instead, he took a safe, legalistic and patently political approach, delaying the dispatch of federal troops until Michigan's Governor George Romney, a potential rival in 1968, was ready to admit that he had lost control of the situation. Johnson's follow-up actions were no more impressive. "Here we've had a whole summer of riots," said former White House Aide Richard Goodwin, who served under both Kennedy and Johnson, "and what do we get? A study commission...
Europeans, and others, often resent what they consider American arrogance. "However much I like the Americans," says a Dane, "I must admit that they suffer from a kind of superman mentality." Europeans also resent the fact that U.S. firms deal brusquely or not at all with trade unions, discontinue such traditions as the German breakfast break on company time or the Spanish siesta, and, unlike paternalistic European firms, lay off workers in recessions. When ITT recently considered buying Belgium's second best football team in order to get its stadium for employee recreation, cynical Belgians quickly predicted that...
...maverick right-wing Tory Duncan Sandys, that the country needed "a coalition of ideas" of both parties-an oblique appeal for a national government, as in World War II. The idea got few takers. Despite the hard knocks he has received lately, Harold Wilson is not yet ready to admit defeat. As for the Tories, they are not that eager to help bail Wilson out of the mess...
...market before being challenged by the U.S. supersonic transport due aloft in the mid-'70s. Roomier than the Concorde (292 passengers v. 132) and faster (1,800 v. 1,450 m.p.h.), the Boeing 2707 has already attracted 125 options from 26 interested airlines. While the British and French admit that the American SST will eventually dominate the North Atlantic-currently accounting for 42% of all international air travel-they argue that there will be plenty of room for their smaller plane on less traveled routes, such as London-Sydney and Paris-Buenos Aires. A potential challenge on these routes...