Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vietnam policy which led to popular revulsion. More importantly, the government of the '60s was headed, for the first time, by conscious elitists--Bundy, the Rostows, McNamara, and Ball, many of whom the essayists in the Public Interest cite in their papers and served with on faculties. Rather than admit the failure of elitist political leadership cut off from vulgar opinion, the Public Interest scholars apparently wish to justify their original errors and retroactively combat the alienation they wrought. Not only was democracy wrong in the '60s, they tell us, it is also wrong...
...admit that our Presidents have very little to do. The Congress governs-and does most of the stealing...
Harry Paxton, author of the article and a senior editor of Medical Economics, said Tuesday Harvard's low ranking in the state licenses is the result of "having taken a few academic gambles in leaning over backwards to admit disadvantaged students...
...jail, but there aren't any firm statistics by which to judge. After all, it's troublesome for any country to come to grips with the problem of criminal behavior, no matter how it's defined; and nearly twenty years after a revolution, it is embarrassing, at least, to admit and attempt to reconcile the presence of ideological or common crimes within a socialist system...
...admit I've never been much of a winter Olympic fan, but I think that's largely due to the fact that the winter games always seemed to be studded with rather crazy competitions designed to capture the thrill of viewing the agony of defeat...