Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speculation abhors a vacuum. Thus there have been reports that she is the niece of Gromyko (not true), that she is of Tatar descent and her actual patronymic is not Maximovna but the rather Asian-sounding Maksudovna ("I am absolutely Russian," she countered last year), that her father was a prominent official exiled to Siberia by Stalin (unlikely), that she has a brother-in-law who was a minor party official until he somehow embarrassed her husband (unconfirmed...
Despite the obvious allure of Gorbachev's space suggestion, which will be formally presented to President Reagan this week in Moscow, U.S. experts in and out of Government are ambivalent about the feasibility of an actual joint expedition to Mars. At best, they point out, the success of any joint mission would rest on the fragile foundation of the Soviet leader's revival of detente with the West. Could good relations between the superpowers, they ask, last long enough to complete, say, a ten-year project? "There are potential benefits to us from such a mission," says U.S. Space Watcher...
...size of the problem. An estimated three out of four thefts are never reported because ranchers know that the rustlers have probably been gone for weeks before the loss is discovered. In California 1,773 head of cattle were reported missing in 1987, but state officials estimate the actual loss to have been about 6,200 animals, worth about $2.5 million. Since the price of cattle has risen sharply, from $429 for a 650-lb. yearling feeder steer at the beginning of 1987 to a near record $543 today, ranchers and law-enforcement officials are bracing for more and more...
...last 10 years, not only have we lost the momentum of earlier minority progress, we have suffered actual reversals in the drive to achieve full equality for minority citizens," the Commission on Minority Participation in Education and American Life said...
...small example of the high moral and intellectual standards with which Harvard conducted its own anti-union campaign, I refer to the following graph copied from one of the "informational" pamphlets Harvard distributed to employees. Whether or not the actual data about "average" salary increases have been distorted I cannot say, since no raw data or notes are provided. What I can say is that whoever was making up the graph saw a disturbing trend, among both union and non-union staff, toward lower rates of increase as the years progressed. Therefore, despite titling the graph "...Increases...