What astonished agency employees, officials said, was that the department had finally acknowledged its problems.
But in a statement, Madonna said she was pleased with other work that Raising Malawi had done in helping children in Malawi, even as she acknowledged its problems.
By contrast, he said, the state on Oct. 31 dropped Putnam as a manager of its state pension plan, because Putnam officials had not acknowledged its problems in a straightforward way.
Acknowledging its problems at the close of the quarter, the McCain campaign shook up its fund-raising organization to catch up, adopting a system for recognizing big bundlers that is similar to the designation of "pioneers" and "rangers" that President Bush employed in his campaigns.
In the company's previous campaign, "Reinvention," launched soon after its Chapter 11 filing, GM acknowledged its problems but painted a rosy image of the future.
Despite this global trend, Nigeria stands out as a country that has acknowledged its problem and made some degree of progress in dealing with counterfeit drug production and trafficking.
The tech industry has long been criticized for failing to acknowledge its own complicity in social problems while adopting change-the-world rhetoric.
The bar has to both acknowledge its own contribution to the problem of unmet legal needs, and figure out a way that it can be helpful in these contexts and educating people about the risks of incorrect advice".
Enron has scrambled to dampen Wall Street's concerns, acknowledging its credibility problem while insisting on the health of its core businesses.
Europe acknowledges its sugar problem and has been instituting reforms intended to reduce sugar subsidies and the fraud that comes with them.
