Word: actually
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...testimony. But last week the Marines began the court martial of Sergeant Clayton Lonetree for espionage and disclosure to the Soviets of the identities of U.S. agents, while he served as a guard at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Though Lonetree could be sentenced to life in prison, his actual crime, says Defense Attorney William Kunstler, was merely to have fallen in love with Violetta Seina, a Soviet translator at the embassy...
Sometimes, though, shoppers are dismayed by SORRY OVERSOLD tags on popular pieces. Though some frustrated customers think IKEA is always out of all the goodies they want, the actual total hovers at 200 to 300 of 13,000 items. To keep prices down, IKEA buys a whole year's supply of goods in advance for all its stores throughout the world, then bets that its projections are right...
...process, but where does a student learn the values he will base his future actions on? Professor Stanley Hoffman once described that when he teaches a Core course he concentrates "on the building rather than scaffolding." Instruction that is obsessed with process will miss the more important "building" of actual moral values...
...fact, the U.S. divorce rate, which climbed sharply in the late 1960s and '70s, declined in the early 1980s and by last year was back to its 1975 rate. The number of divorces per 1,000 Americans peaked at 5.3 in 1981; it was 5 in 1985. Although the actual number of divorces each year tripled between 1962 and 1981 to a high of 1.2 million, this too began dropping in 1982. In 1985 there were 1,187,000 divorces...
...decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, the Justices held that vigorous comment about public officials' performances of their duties was vitally deserving of protection. So it added to the traditional elements of libel -- falsity and damage to reputation -- a third factor involving the journalist's state of mind: "actual malice." In order to prevail in court, public officials would have to show that a reporter knew the story to be false or showed "reckless disregard of whether it was false." That provision turned out to have some unforeseen negative consequences for media defendants. It has allowed plaintiffs to review...