In an apparent attempt to blunt criticism, Trump acknowledged at last week's photo op that purging a half century of protections could have an adverse impact, and he assured Americans that he would not let that happen.
Still, Mr. Bloomberg has conceded that he has fallen short, acknowledging at a news conference last year that "the diversity of our administration has not been as diverse as the city itself".
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.
That event was important because it produced the first significant Soviet concerns about Mao's behavior, and the formal American commitment to defend Taiwan — the most contentious issue, MacMillan acknowledges, at the 1972 Beijing talks.
It is difficult, however, to look closely at the way laws are being made today without acknowledging at least an appearance of corruption.
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.
