It has published a lot of material that it shouldn't have done – which it periodically acknowledges itself.
Periodically, acknowledge achievements.
You could make a case that the Devils are to the hockey community what hockey is to the relevance nerds (and nerds are often the worst kinds of bullies): something to be acknowledged periodically, if only to be scolded for not being something else — more popular, less difficult, more offensive, less violent.
Speaking in June at the company's Lincoln Center headquarters, Mr. Peck, dark-haired and boyishly athletic, acknowledged feeling periodically overwhelmed.
Asked about the offending yard, Mr. Lee acknowledged that it has been periodically unkempt — a broken fence, brush piles, an unregistered car.
Mr. Stuart acknowledged that the subject arises periodically among residents, but he said, "There's no interest in going in any other direction, at least for now".
Subsequently, in a meeting with F.D.A. officials, Healy candidly acknowledged widespread "infrastructure, quality and auditor problems," including a headquarters computer system that periodically "lost functionality," according to an affidavit in the court file.
Professor Firestein, who is periodically consulted by perfume companies as well, acknowledges that adding scents to entertainment products would not have been his first choice for commercializing olfactory research, but he is enthusiastic nonetheless.
In practice, each element of the system would acknowledge the receipt of messages and periodically re-send unacknowledged messages in order to guarantee delivery.
But in "Provenance Unknown," a 1989 work revised in 2006 and set to Mr. Glass's "Metamorphosis," Ms. Fenley was mostly alone; she periodically paused near the still bulk of the piano as if acknowledging a kindred spirit.
