Word: actually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wastes, and in California from agricultural chemicals. But awareness of the vulnerability of ground water is still so new that EPA officials do not really know how far the fouling of the aquifers has spread. Says Costle: "We cannot even begin to say how much of our drinking water, actual or potential, may have been contaminated. We are going to be doing a lot of detective work...
...long drive from Petula Clark's," he grins. And then sitting by the piano and plunking the ivories absently, his eyes look up. "Actually, I've been thinking about putting out an album called My Favorites. And instead of my cover versions of those tunes, it would just be an album of the actual cuts. Just songs that I enjoy and [in TV commercial voice] you can enjoy the same ones that I enjoy, but you'll know that those specifically are the ones that I like...
Just how many young men would respond to an actual draft, of course, remains uncertain. But Selective Service officials take heart from the fact that a sampling of those who registered indicated that only 1.8% noted on the forms that they were registering under protest. Officials estimate that even fewer falsified their birth dates or used obviously fictitious names like Michael Mouse. On the other hand, 14.8% of the registrants asked for more information about enlisting in the military...
...nearly convinced himself that Iran would return to the constitution of 1906, that the legislature would reassemble, the military would hold order and a stable government take root. "It was preposterous," says one who helped plan the American response. "The President's thinking was not based on any actual experience of how governments really work in this world...
...plot turns on actual events, beginning with the Nobel award. The Soviet authorities had been outraged by the publication abroad of Pasternak's novel, Doctor Zhivago, which they had banned as anti-Soviet. When the prize was announced, they launched a vast campaign of vilification against the author...