is it?
"Dragged kicking and screaming to partly allow as how.." might be the closest to the A word.

Inconceivable that the word 'modular' could be permitted utterance on the campus, too. To acknowledge that their entire product line has morphed into so many mega-lines that No One on Earth could possibly fix it - surely could only be admitted within the cover-letter to investors, explaining the reasons behind the company's dissolution into n-fragments and the planned auction of capital equipment.

Hey - I showed the Bally dance to someone a few days ago. Comment:
"Jeez, those guys are just plain sick.."

Guess I've never seen a quote from M$ containing a simple acknowledgement with no subordinate clauses, re Any topic.


Ashton