Word: actually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answers to these and other questions are nowhere to be found. But you can almost forgive Bulliet's condescension--he is, after all, a professor, who teaches Middle East history at Columbia. Moreover, he weaves such an engaging tale of espionage and international whoop-dee-do that the actual details aren't quite as important as the frantic pace and the heart-in-your-throat situations...
...banquets and entertaining modern Japanese businessmen. Dalby's book is written with a sympathy and understanding for the geisha world that brings these women to life. There are flaws in Dalby's elegantly written book, for it too often concentrates on the form of Geisha life rather than the actual substance...
...size of nuclear weapons, away from the multi-megaton hydrogen bombs of the early 1960's to the less powerful, but far more accurate missiles of today. If technological trends continue, precise but conventionally-armed missiles may become more attractive--that is, more cost-effective and more useful in actual warfare. As Dyson notes, "The primary requirement for carrying through any act of nuclear disarmament is the political will to do so, but the formation of such a will can be powerfully helped by a technological development deliberately aimed toward making nuclear weapons unattractive...
...actual canoe trip turned out to be a short journey. Ten minutes after the group left the shore, the strong wind and choppy waters on the Charles that day overturned one of the canoes, and the leaders decided to call off the expedition. Instead, the group decided to go bowling...
...turns of the breakup. Nonetheless, since the first of the year the Federal Communications Commission has received 14,000 letters of complaint about phone service, 400% more than usual. Biggest gripe: slowness in installing new lines. The central message in most of the mail has less to do with actual shortcomings than with a changing attitude toward the phone company. Says an FCC staffer: "People feel the phone company is less friendly. If the new companies squander the service image that AT&T gave them, it will be very expensive to rebuild...