Word: actually
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Furthermore, "This sort of thing happens every five years or so" as quoted in the article was in fact the end of my actual statement: "I hear this sort of thing happens every five years or so." It was a reference to a rumor rather than a dismissal of a warning, a distinction which responsible reporting should have made. It was also inappropriate for Kolodziej to quote me in this context at all because, as I explained to him at the time, as manager I am not directly responsible for the production of halftime shows. Marcia Ann Ellard H.U.B. Manager
...joke when repeated too often becomes stale. When it is directed at particular groups of people over and over again, it begins to pick up in hostility what it loses in humor. When the groups of people at which the joke is aimed also are the targets of actual (not merely verbal) forms of discrimination, then it becomes offensive and even painful. If you still do not understand this, I suggest that you ask a woman or a Black or a Pole or a South Boston Irishman to explain...
...flag was placed in the direction in which it would have waved on takeoff and landing had it been an actual flag...
...earned on their old house, a first mortgage of $94,000 at 9.5% interest, a second one for $50,000 at 12%, and a third one from the seller for $41,000 at 15%. Then via a complex system of "balloon" payments, they were able to bring the actual interest rate down...
When they cast their votes for the IBM resolution--which would discontinue the company's sale of computers to the South African government, except for humanitarian and medical purposes--Corporation members worded the endorsements so that they did not find fault with the company's actual policy. But IBM's board of directors did officially oppose the resolution, and they allow sales to several agencies that cannot be defined as either humanitarian or medically justifiable. Thus, the Corporation managed to pay lip service to the ACSR's approval of the measure while giving IBM's management a resounding...