Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anyone who has closely observed the course of [the allies'] summit diplomacy and its results, however, cannot help noticing that the scale of the harmonious final communiqués is out of all proportion to the actual results or even to the atmosphere of the talks. The economic summits of recent years have shown that growing domestic difficulties have made these meetings more and more a forum for mutual recriminations in which various governments try to shift their responsibility for national aberrations onto others. Hence it is to be feared that European governments will succumb to the temptation...
Nonetheless, the poll became a subject of controversy even before its results were known. Though the survey was conducted by an Israeli firm in conjunction with sociologists from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the actual interviewing was carried out in Arabic by some 40 Palestinians, who talked with a total of 441 people living in 58 West Bank towns, villages and refugee camps. The sample was selected to reflect the distribution of population according to sex, age and geographical location...
...first thing you have to deal with is the actual dynamics of the board. A lot of tenants complain about the fundamental rudeness of the board. It has its own procedures for operating, and they're not made evident to anyone present, you might even say they're obscured. A lot of people talk about how tense they are when they go in there. The cues--when to talk, etc., are left out. You're made to feel as if your complaints aren't legitimate...
McCardell's departure was politely termed a "resignation" by company officials, but the actual decision to dump him was made at a two-hour weekend meeting of the firm's 16-member board of directors. International Harvester has been under intense pressure from banks and other lenders, to which it owes $4.2 billion, and the company's creditors are widely thought to have played a key role in forcing McCardell out. Says William A. Goldstein, executive vice president and analyst for the Chicago investment brokerage firm of Burton J. Vincent, Chesley & Co.: "Despite their denials, the banks...
...encouraging that Marius shares our conviction that poor writing is a surefire sign of poor thinking, and that in few non science courses the actual subject matter is more important than the ability to write about it clearly. And we fear a great many section leaders do not operate under this assumption, we have seen too many papers come back with only cursory comments about the paper's content alone...