Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some 3,000 instances of the process appear in The Originals, a witty and thorough compendium that traces novels, plays and tales back to their sources. No matter how extravagant the characters seem on the page, claims British Journalist William Amos, every one of them was based on an actual person...
...connecting these complex medical discoveries to an actual cure is another matter. Harvard researchers hope their work will pave the way to either a vaccine, which would keep people from being infected, or a drug, which would help kill or control the AIDS virus. Their work is also devoted to developing tests to catch people who are carrying the virus and determining how many of them will actually get sick...
Smith is less successful when he contemplates the meaning of it all. "We may be on the ground floor of the primary anxiety of the rest of history," says one character, benefiting from the hindsight of fiction. Records of the actual event contain revealing statements that defy the imagination. Said a general to the scientist who had called the century's most resonant countdown: "What a wonderful thing that you could count backward at a time like this...
Stockman tells some appalling tales about the haphazard way the actual Reagan economic program of 1981 was shaped. On one occasion, he and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger casually agreed to split the difference between various military-spending proposals and came up with a figure of 7% real growth in the Pentagon budget. Stockman paid little attention to the base figure on which the Pentagon proposed to calculate that 7%. When he saw the actual numbers pointing to military spending of $1.46 trillion over the next five years, Stockman writes, he "nearly had a heart attack." Later the OMB boss...
After the attempted coup, 500,000 or more actual or suspected Communists, most of them of Chinese descent, were killed, and an additional 1.5 million Communist sympathizers were jailed or interned on remote islands. In the mid- 1970s, Suharto's regime invaded and ultimately annexed the former Portuguese colony of East Timor; the struggle led to the death of 100,000 Timorese...