Company executives, who declined to discuss specific numbers, acknowledged that they had several duplicate areas of business, as well as buildings and support services, that could be eliminated.
Mr. Trudeau, whose campaign was long on speeches about reviving public participation in Canadian politics and short on specific policies, acknowledged that he would inevitably disappoint some of his supporters.
He, too, would not discuss specifics but acknowledged that sales had slowed since Sept. 11.
Whatever the specifics, many acknowledged that the "movie city" had played a significant role in bringing them to New York, and that even after they had moved, they still felt the need need to reconcile the reality of the city with the mythic metropolis that, at some level, had been promised them.
Second, though population ecology theorists usually contend that competitive environments are country specific, some acknowledge that institutional environments may be different across regions within a country.
A more specific scale acknowledges that large towns that are near major cities are very different from small towns in remote locations.
In specific, we acknowledge the challenges of initiating MPAs as a conservation and management tool in a culturally diverse and complex society, where the local people have more at stake than conservation.
On specific issues, Ms. Gunn acknowledged that the problems were thorny and answers few, like how to curtail spending without cutting too deeply into Medicare.
But Mr. Lieberman said Mr. Gore had not given him a specific date and acknowledged, uncomfortably, that he might find himself in a difficult position if Mr. Gore did not state his intentions by next year.
Joseph R. Greene, the agency's assistant commissioner of investigations in Washington, while also choosing not to discuss specific staffing levels, acknowledged in a recent telephone interview that attrition had long been a nationwide problem for the agency.
