41.   The talks represent the first direct contact between the two sides in more than half a decade, but neither side will elaborate on them beyond acknowledging their existence.

42.   The videotape surfaced two years ago, they said, and Iraq had subsequently acknowledged its existence.

43.   They simply love to watch him play and are happy he acknowledges their existence in his world.

44.   This unit is so secretive that the military does not officially acknowledge its existence.

45.   This full-throated use of the video tape is in marked contrast to earlier reluctance to release it or even acknowledge its existence.

46.   Thursday, the FBI acknowledged the existence of the inquiry.

47.   Unlike Jimy Williams, Bret Saberhagen, and several of the Red Sox, Ripken acknowledges the existence of the wild card.

48.   What you try to do, having acknowledged their existence, is forget about them in their extraneity and tawdriness, and try to do it right.

49.   American officials have continually refused to acknowledge the existence of such a system, and have denied that American agencies engage in industrial espionage.

50.   Asked about the dispute during a news conference, a senior Jiangxi lawmaker acknowledged the existence of the tax dispute but claimed the problem had been resolved.