Word: admitting
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...decision to go from being a Party member to a public spokesman is a big step; the personal investment is not to be discounted. A number of spokesmen admit that they have significantly limited the range of future job opportunities by "going public." Not only is it impossible for an avowed Communist to get employment with the government (assuming he would want the job) but he may also find teaching and medicine ruled out. Many Communists, however, have joined the Party because of the penalties, reasoning that the government shouldn't be able to decide which organization an individual belongs...
Receptive to Ideas. The psychology of the Total Immersion technique, as Berlitz officials unashamedly admit, is suspiciously close to that of brainwashing. "What we try to do," says New York Berlitz Director Emanuel Huarte, "is to break students down mentally until they lose the ability to resist and are receptive to fresh ideas." The breakdown begins to the clang of an 8:15 a.m. bell in a windowless classroom, where the student faces one of his four alternating instructors. Student and teacher speak nothing but the foreign language during eleven 40-minute periods, relieved only by five-minute English breaks...
Spaethling emphasized that the new course is just an experiment. "If it turns out to be less than we hoped for we will not be ashamed to admit the mistake...
...evil about which too much is said and too little done. Man's greatest problem has always been one of resisting some form of self-destruction, and the threat posed to life on earth by pollution is certainly more serious than most of us would even privately admit...
...hard to be concerned about this inequity in the grading system because a student's rank really has only minimal importance. In determining admission to Dean's List and such programs as Honors Tutorial a student's rank group is consulted, but most departments are flexible enough to admit students to Tutorial who fall a fraction of a grade short of the required level...