Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Resourceful students, however, employ many successful self-alerting techniques. Pierced students admit to pulling on their body jewelry to give themselves wakening jolts of pain. Those without piercings resort to more primitive measures: "I like to take my pen and just poke it into my arm sometimes," boasts Phil H. Chan...
...TIME health writer Christine Gorman says the proposal also could help instill a cultural change in the medical industry by making doctors feel it's OK to admit they make mistakes. "Medicine in the U.S. could be safer than it is," says Gorman, "because it doesn't take into account the fact that errors are going to occur, as inevitably they will. If you take that into account, you can do something about it." Doing something about it, according to the NAS, means creating some sort of federal regulatory agency, a kind of FAA for the practice of medicine...
...people check out sales at department stores that Friday morning. But who needs Penn State or Bloomingdale's distractions when the gym tenaciously beckons? Relax and sleep in during my vacation? Uh-uh. The aerobics classes were summoning and I was more than happy to oblige. I admit it, I am a gym-junkie sell...
Bial's index is not meant to replace the SAT or any other current standard, Bial said, but is instead a "tool that can be used to help college admissions officers broaden the way they assess and admit applicants...
...still on the same continuum, and the march of history seems to suggest that somehow, at some point, their number will come up. Their members will miss them, which is more than understandable: any exclusive institution is awfully nice for the people on the inside, and I readily admit that the clubs have some charms and graces all their own. Still, I have to say, I won't be too sorry to say goodbye...