And while Americans acknowledge an abundance of jobs, a surprising number still report that they fear being laid off in the near future.
Most Americans acknowledge the service of our troops on Memorial Day, whether we agree with our country's involvement in the war or not.
But even the campaign's architect, Ahmad Chalabi, the former ally turned bête noire of the Americans, acknowledged that the dispute had ended for now and that none of the winning candidates would be barred.
Principally at issue was where the encounter had actually taken place and the willingness of Americans to acknowledge the Mexican contention that the Nueces River formed the border between the two countries.
Above all, ask them if the willingness of Americans to acknowledge their own failures before humanity doesn't light the world as surely as the great ideas and beliefs that made this nation a beacon of hope and liberty for all who strive to be free...
Alternatively, the president could break with two decades of American compliance, acknowledge publicly that the emperor is indeed naked, dismiss Mr. Netanyahu for the cynic he is and remind Israelis that all their settlements are hostage to American goodwill.
Whenever I teach it, I tell my students it is an important work about an overlooked moment of American history, acknowledging that Okada's prose might feel a little stiff, Ichiro's psyche underdeveloped, the novel's visions of identity and community immature by today's standards.
The executive editor of The New York Times, Dean Baquet, who is African-American, acknowledged the paper's own diversity issues in a piece the Times published last year.
This only reinforces the unwillingness of most Americans to acknowledge death as a normal (and inevitable) part of life.
The court that oversees US surveillance has ordered the government to review for declassification a set of secret rulings about the National Security Agency's bulk trawls of Americans' phone records, acknowledging that disclosures by the whistleblower Edward Snowden had triggered an important public debate.
