I applaud Vecsey's journalistic courage by simply acknowledging that because of "the baseball wisdom of George Steinbrenner," logic will prevail.
"I have the good fortune of having the capacity to buy stock," he continues, while acknowledging that because he is already rich from his previous ventures, in his current position his salary is a nominal $1 a year.
It was a remarkable speech that: admitted shared responsibility, called for mutual understanding, presented a constructive agenda for change, and closed with the President acknowledging that because "no single speech can eradicate years of mistrust" it was imperative that bold action be taken quickly to address the issues that divide our two worlds.
Finally, we acknowledge that because low birth weight is associated with altered growth patterns in childhood, it would be relevant to consider effects of air pollution on child weight and height at other time points in and after pregnancy, as done in a few studies (Fleisch et al. 2015; Jerrett et al. 2014; Ritz et al. 2014).
It's hard, because I truly believe that there are multiple truths in the world, because I acknowledge that my politics can be wrong, because I know that I only know what I know.
For a lot of different reasons, I like the trend, but because I acknowledge that it's also likely to be massively disruptive to employers and to working people, I feel I should tell you why.
I call myself bisexual because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted -- romantically and/or sexually -- to people of more than one sex and/or gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree.
"I acknowledge that a woman is reading Bazaar because she wants to shop".
I acknowledge that I find him intimidating, not because I think he is smarter than me (though probably he knows a lot more than me in some arenas) but because he could hurt my feelings.
Now I've said something like this before (I need to acknowledge that because I might otherwise be accused of self-plagiarism, a new entry in the catalogue of professional sins) but it bears repeating: Journalism isn't built on imaginative originality.
