TOKYO — Japanese corporations are expressing growing interest in enrolling more of their managers in executive education programs overseas, acknowledging a need to make their organizations more globally oriented at a time when their home market is projected to shrink.
On the whole, Mr Peiris commended parents for showing an interest in sending their children to study overseas, and acknowledged: "Tuition fee rises and maintenance grant changes seem to be having an impact".
The foundation added that it would refile any tax returns which misreported some overseas donations, acknowledging accounting "mistakes".
The opportunity to work alongside an acknowledged overseas star can be an amazing learning experience.
Promising to enhance the nation's espionage operations overseas, President Bush acknowledged on Friday that the prewar intelligence on Iraq was flawed, but nevertheless defended his decision to go to war.
While we wait, Reuters has some background on the moves to greater openness by the secret services: The Secret Intelligence Service [SIS], which gathers secret intelligence overseas, was first publicly acknowledged by the government in 1992, its website says.
Just last week, Gove gave a speech in which he highlighted the poor letter-writing skills of boys and girls in England, compared with their counterparts overseas, claiming this "regretfully acknowledged a terrible truth about English students".
And while Ocean Spray officials say the company is in the midst of a turnaround, with aggressive advertising and expansion into overseas markets, they acknowledge that it may take until 2002 to raise the price of cranberries to the break-even point.
And Hadden is also critical of the influx of overseas players, despite acknowledging the improvements made at his former club.
Clearly, the Foreign Office is more concerned about the domestic and overseas ramifications of acknowledging the Armenian Genocide than the crime of genocide itself.
