Prime Minister Wen Jiabao acknowledged at the end of June that the target might not be met.
"When I left Boston, there was a lot of hard feelings, a lot of mistrust and all that stuff," Damon acknowledged at Yankee Stadium last week.
In fact, the government acknowledged at the May 5 hearing that the Fisa court has never once considered a First Amendment challenge to the constitutionality of secrecy requirements.
"Gil's very good at leading the team and keeping everyone calm, because I'm pretty high strung as far as what happens on the track and things like that," Harvick acknowledged at Kansas earlier this month.
This oversight is no secret: as Labor Department officials acknowledged at a 2004 conference, their statistical methods deem any reduction in the work that goes into creating a specific unit of output, whatever the cause, to be a productivity gain.
Instead, daily life here has become a deadly lottery, a place so fraught with danger that one senior American military officer acknowledged at a briefing last month that nowhere in the area assigned to his troops could be considered safe.
Mr. Lynton acknowledged at a conference this month that the competition would be brutal.
Chen Tong, chief editor at Sina, acknowledged at a conference last month that controlling content on microblogs was a "very big headache".
She learned to "stay on message," even though she acknowledged at one point this fall, "I get tired of hearing myself say it over and over again".
TUI took the action just days after Mrs. Merkel and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France acknowledged at a meeting earlier this month of G-20 leaders in Cannes, France, that Greece could well leave the monetary union.
