Word: actually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prisoners were not expected to survive. Yet Solzhenitsyn also knows, as he says in The First Circle, that "descriptions of prison life tend to overdo the horror of it. Surely it is more frightening when there are no actual horrors; what is terrifying is the unchanging routine year after year. The horror is forgetting that your life?the only life you have?is destroyed, is in your willingness to forgive even some ugly swine of a warder, is in being obsessed with grabbing a big hunk of bread in the prison mess or getting a decent set of underwear when...
...Sorensen, who represented the estate in the negotiations and did "very minor editing," insisted that all of the actual writing was the work of the late Senator. Asked why the Kennedy family had consented to the sale and its attendant publicity, Sorensen said that the executors (Mrs. Ethel Kennedy, Senator Edward Kennedy and Mrs. Pat Kennedy Lawford) "are required by law to maximize the estate, particularly when there are eleven minor children...
...camera angles could be synchronized with changes in the mood of the music. Then, one day last January, two simulated performances were videotaped. Only after all this-which cost a big chunk of the $275,000 that CBS spent to produce the program-did Horowitz give final approval. The actual show was taped before an invited audience a month later...
...Actual Threats. Tennessee's law had been tested in the courts only once, but in that case the jailing of a witness had been upheld because he had balked at testifying and had been declared in contempt of court. By contrast, Stephens had been a cooperative witness. His lawyers argued that there was no reason to believe that he would not testify; there had been no actual threats on his life. Taking the case to a Memphis Circuit Court, Gipson and Friedman won a plea for a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that Stephens had been denied...
Under the minimum-rate setup, member brokers of the exchange are required to charge investors no less than the fee prescribed by the exchange for every purchase or sale of securities. The actual amount varies with both the price of the stock and the number of shares traded. For example, a buyer must pay $44 in commissions to get 100 shares of a $50 stock, or $47 for 100 shares of an $80 stock. The Justice Department maintains that this amounts to illegal price fixing. Instead of rigid minimums, it wants free competition among brokers for setting the commission...