Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the big stores have slashed the costs of food distribution in half since the 1930s, other expenses are rising. From 1955 to 1965, wages went up 46%, but retail food prices rose less than 14%. Yet supermarket operators admit that they could do considerably more to reduce costs through automation. Across the typical checkout counter run 22 tons of merchandise a week-all of it totted up and packed by hand. Says George W. Jenkins, president of Florida-based Publix Super Markets: "Many repetitive supermarket activities are readymade for mechanical and electronic assistance...
...brief introduction, the editors disarmingly acknowledge that they are prepared for such criticism; they admit that no one book could ever contain the complete history of a global war involving 56 nations. Their aim instead is to present in words and pictures the essential history of the greatest war and try to re-create a feeling of what it meant to the people who were caught up in it. By and large, they have succeeded. Although the text by New York Times Columnist C. L. Sulzberger is sometimes stiff and distant, the book contains engrossing eyewitness accounts from such diverse...
...have to admit I thought of it," said Sharon, and the others concurred. But they didn't seem to be as intrigued by the prospect as their parents are and as they were before they came to Cambridge. Jo Anne leads tours for prospective students and their families. "When I show parents Harvard Law, their eyes light up," she said...
...American Allied case became a general embarrassment to all Minnesota Democrats, it was always agony for Sandy Keith. From April, 1964 to February, 1965, Keith had been employed --at $500 per month -- as general counsel and vice-president of U.S. Mutual, a subsidiary of American Allied. Even his friends admit he was guilty of incredible naivete and poor judgment in accepting the job. Republicans made it clear that the American Allied case would be their big issue this fall and Keith's vulnerability helped scare away D.F.L. financial support for the primary battle...
...team switched from folk singing to folk rock because "those mountain songs didn't say anything to the kids in the 22-story apartment house." Songwriter Simon, a short moonfaced lad whose lyrics are studied in a few high school English courses, does not admit to any big message. "We are just creating doubts and raising questions," he explains. Garfunkel, a Columbia University graduate student who sports a Dr. Zorba shock of electrified hair, says: "Pop music is the most vibrant force in music today. It's like dope-so heady, so alive...