Disagreeing with the company, OUR Walmart said this week's demonstrations were not demanding union recognition, although some of the group's members acknowledge that is their long-term goal.
One member acknowledges that it will take political will to do in four months what previous governments have never seriously tried.
Mr. Thordson, the board member, acknowledged that executives were slow to notice soaring costs for generator rentals amid the company's pell-mell rush to expand.
Republicans opposed to Mr. Hagel, a fellow party member, acknowledge that it will be hard to block him and that their effort will most likely require at least some Democratic defections.
And leaving the lunch meeting on Tuesday, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and a Judiciary Committee member, acknowledged that senators who had met with Ms. Miers were telling colleagues that they had been unimpressed.
Stuart E. Eizenstat, the former deputy Treasury secretary who urged the panel's creation and served as a member, acknowledged that the report did not go as far as he had hoped.
Lake, the Fix The City board member, acknowledged that the city has the power to void the restrictions in the covenant.
One faculty member acknowledged that the current activities 'do not address the Association of American Medical Colleges objectives specifically', but nonetheless felt that 'the outcome is probably OK'.
As the campaigns test the limits of the law, the election commission has publicly wrestled with the rules, with some members acknowledging that the Internet is impossible to regulate and that the agency is loath to infringe on freedom of expression.
The departing schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, defended the release of the rankings in an e-mail to school staff members, acknowledging that they had limitations but calling them "the fairest systemwide way we have to assess the real impact of teachers on student learning".
