Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the ratings of past Presidents are not likely to change much in the future. The two scholars concluded from their data that those historians who participated made their rankings not on the dubious grounds of personality traits like idealism, flexibility and obduracy, but on the solid dimensions of actual presidential accomplishments...
...Navy's air attack brought the U.S. closer to actual warfare with an Arab nation than it had ever been. It also seemed to place the Syrians in a somewhat stronger psychological position in regard to the U.S. Syrian authorities turned over the body of the dead pilot, Lieut. Mark A. Lange, 26, of Fraser, Mich., to the Lebanese Army for relay to the U.S. command in Beirut. But the Syrian Defense Minister, Major General Mustafa Tlas, said his government would not surrender the captured pilot, Lieut. Robert O. Goodman, 27, of Portsmouth, N.H., until "the war has ended...
...vivid similarities between author and protagonist often make it difficult to separate the fictitious from the actual. When Zuckerman's hated critic, Milton Appel, accuses him of capitalizing on the ethnic eccentricities of Teaneck, N.J. and the lower East side, we cannot help but think of Roth's own battles with critics and his New Jersey origins...
...scenes preceding Kevin's death. But on the other hand it plunges into the lives of Karen Silkwood and her friends without sensationalizing the struggle against bigger and more powerful foes. The poignant acting and cinematography make the film flow gently towards its graveyard end, while it is the actual story of Silkwood's life that leaves the deepest impression...
...finding an impartial jury. The tapes were of dubiously lawful origin-CBS acquired them from Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt, who bought them from a clerk at a law firm that had briefly represented De Lorean-and they did not break news that would otherwise have gone unreported: the actual footage was scheduled to be introduced into evidence at the trial. The network's rationale, according to CBS News President Edward Joyce: "It was newsworthy because this was the first time we actually saw the Government making an arrest in this type of case...