Bob Howe, Fordham's director of communications, acknowledged that the permit requirement from the university amounted to "a Catch-22".
Roy Vogeltanz, CryoLife's vice president for corporate communications, acknowledged that half the patients with serious infections had received implants from the company.
Robert White, Davis's communications director, acknowledged that Davis had the agreement and had received it "a while ago".
To make matters worse, cooperation rates for diary-keeping have plummeted, as the Nielsen vice president of communications, Jack Loftus, acknowledged.
Denise Mitchell, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s communications director, acknowledged yesterday that Mr. Nader's campaign was attracting labor support.
Karen P. Hughes, Mr. Bush's communications director, acknowledged as much, saying, "The point of this is that while the economy is strong, there are problems in society".
Michael Albano, who recently returned to Detroit after three years in Shanghai to become Chevrolet's communications director, acknowledged China's growing influence on G.M.'s designs, sales and profits.
Harvard's director for athletic communications, Chuck Sullivan, acknowledged that the plan was a way to sell tickets for some of the games for which demand had not been as strong as it would be for the Cornell game.
And at the White House, Mr. Obama's deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, Benjamin J. Rhodes, acknowledged in an interview Sunday that such events were "heart-wrenching, very difficult moments, and they take a lot of time and effort for both sides to move beyond".
In a 20-week review of Court's performance, in November 2014, when she was signed off sick with depression following her complaints of bullying, the South Yorkshire police head of communications, Carrie Goodwin, acknowledged: "Hayley disclosed that she felt she had been asked to act in an unethical manner in that she should coerce the media".
A tweet from communications director Jen Palmieri acknowledging shortcomings was far from a full-throated apology, but it was nonetheless rare.
