Mrs. Clinton's advisers did not dispute Mr. Plouffe's calculation, in effect acknowledging the enormousness of their task.
And they have also, in effect, acknowledged the international nature of the liquidity squeeze, by promising to provide reciprocal currency-swap lines.The Fed made the most dramatic changes.
Didymus Mutasa, who served as Mr. Mugabe's minister for national security until the power-sharing deal went into effect, acknowledged that some senior officials in his party might be worried about prosecution.
Pennetta, who does not like to talk about the Moya effect, acknowledged that she refocused her priorities, making tennis No. 1. "Of course after what happened, I was more piu forte," she said, meaning she was stronger inside.
By convening the G20 rather than the closed, rich club of the G7, the old order has in effect acknowledged that the rest of the world has become too important to bar from the room.
Mr. Manawi in effect acknowledged that the commission's latest decision was as much a political compromise as a legal solution, although he insisted that the agency had acted independently.
Some environmentalists — in effect acknowledging that the country cannot quickly wean itself off coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel — have tepidly endorsed the concept of capturing carbon dioxide from coal plants and storing it underground.
Even the oil minister, who had repeatedly denied the sanctions were having an effect, acknowledged this week that oil exports and revenue plunged by more than 40 percent last year compared with the year before.
And it can't be emphasized enough that everyone who shrieks about the dangers of the austerity bomb is in effect acknowledging that the Keynesians were right all along, that slashing spending and raising taxes on ordinary workers is destructive in a depressed economy, and that we should actually be doing the opposite.
Earlier this year, Microsoft jumped into the subnotebook party, in effect acknowledging that Linux has staked a toehold.
