Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council also discussed measures that would tighten up and improve the actual procedure that floundered when Theda Skocpol, then an associate professor, charged in 1980 that the Sociology Department discriminated on the basis of sex in refusing to recommend her for tenure...
...organization has indeed mobilized to prevent any complacency this time around. Though "the Duke" officially announced his candidacy in early January, his forces have been organizing for roughly a year. In December, two months before the ward caucuses, six months before the nominating convention, and 10 months before the actual Democratic primary, he secured the support of the state's two leading liberal organizations. Americans for Democratic Action and Citizens for Participation in Political Action. Last week, the former governor won roughly 60 percent of the delegates in the ward caucuses, virtually guaranteeing himself the nomination...
DiPietro said that during the actual rapes. "I was physically numb, I couldn't fight. I was humiliated and disgusted. I couldn't do anything." But the doctors have claimed repeatedly that" in no way did she indicate she was not a willing participant in what was going on" and that what went on was "entirely of her own volition...
...hubbub about confrontation and escalation against the Soviets [Jan. 18], one significant factor has been overlooked: it does not matter what the actual intentions of the West are toward the Soviet Union. What is important is the Soviet citizen's perception of these intentions. Despite their disenchantment with their own government, the Soviet people are convinced that the U.S. wishes to destroy them. Therefore, they are patriotic and loyal, and whatever is said or done to reinforce their convictions will turn out to be counterproductive...
Unfortunately, there is a large contingent of these plot-seekers among today's readers. Theirs is the soap-opera or bad science-fiction approach to literature. Squeeze in a sufficient number of strange romantic liaisons, family scandals, new and improved forms of alien visitors, and so on, and the actual words in which these twists are conveyed are relatively unimportant. Throw in great wars or scheming terrorists, and the author need barely be literate...