Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does not routinely ask citizens whether they employ household workers, scofflaws can be detected through tax audits called for other reasons. The chances of that happening are far greater than the risk of being nabbed by the understaffed immigration service. Even so, people who voluntarily come forward to confess could swiftly find themselves without a nanny. "If someone has an illegal worker," notes a spokesman for the immigration agency, "there isn't any way to make that person legal without waiting a long period of time...
GENTLEMEN: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System," you reprinted recently...
...risk of provoking another letter exposing my crypto-liberalism, I confess that I find the country's present mood of Clinton-worship more inspiring than disconcerting. Quite aside from my opinions of his policies, I welcome the unfamiliar sensation of living in a society which feels that respect and enthusiasm for our political leaders is acceptable behavior even for intellectuals...
...must confess that I didn't offer the family money or food or the coat off my back. But their faces and the awful poignancy of the scene remain with me. What should I have done? Was this a temporary frisson of guilt? What was my moral responsibility...
...must confess that I really don't have any clue where row PP really is. But I sense that I ought to invest in some Kleenex stock, pronto...