Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the December massacre at Rome's airport at Fiumicino, in which 31 people were killed by Palestinian terrorists, the new strategy is to deter such attacks with massive shows of force. But even security men admit that such demonstrations are not totally effective. Terrorists travel around Europe as easily as tourists nowadays, and they have already shown that they can obtain missiles. Raiding an apartment at Ostia near Fiumicino last September, Italian secret service agents discovered two 4½-ft. Strelas, whose heat-seeking warhead can knock down a low-flying jet up to two miles away...
...belly and bottom and straighten the spine. Some fanatic converts claim that Earth Shoes cure bunions and even stimulate blood circulation. Podiatrists have yet to weigh in with a verdict, but Earth Shoes seem far less dangerous than platforms, which have caused countless sprains and fractures. Most wearers admit, however, that the first few weeks can be uncomfortable. Earth Shoe rookies often complain of aching calves and thighs and a slowed-down gait...
...core of Violence and the Brain consisted of the case histories of four patients who received psychosurgery. The core of the opposition lies in the long-term follow-ups of two patients-Thomas R. and Julia S. The doctors themselves now admit that there have been no long-term positive results of their operations in the patients...
...Solzhenitsyn writes of those accountable: "We must be generous and not shoot them . . . not grip their skulls in steel bands, not shut them up where they will lie on each other like baggage. No, none of that should be done. But the guilty must be tried and made to admit: 'Yes, I was an executioner and a criminal...
...possible conditions, the one that businessmen most abhor is uncertainty. Yet as the U.S. economy lumbers out of one of its most profitable, troublesome and portentous years, uncertainty is the only word for the outlook. In trying to gauge prospects for 1974, most economists admit to playing a kind of blindman's buff. The biggest imponderable is the extent of the damage likely to result from the energy crisis, which is sure to bring something that economists have no experience charting: a slowdown caused not by lack of demand but by shortage of supply...