Word: actually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Summer School makes an effort to place the students close together if not as actual roommates because, officials say, they realize that a dance student might share more interests with another dance student than with a student studying physics...
Consider John Adams the founding executive producer of this year's Fourth of July festivities. The second President did not, of course, know about the Statue of Liberty, much less Hollywood mini-series or the value of a rating point. But David Wolper, the actual executive producer of Liberty Weekend, likes to cite Adams as a kind of 18th century mogul in a powdered wig. Were Wolper to stage a historical scroll of credits for his extravaganza honoring the Statue of Liberty's restoration, he might even see fit to list Adams as a creative consultant...
...President Reagan's Supreme Court nominee, who is widely regarded as no friend of the press. Judge Scalia's view was supported by a now famous footnote in a 1979 Supreme Court ruling written by Chief Justice Warren Burger. In that case, Burger noted that in order to prove "actual malice"--the stiff standard public figures must meet to win a libel case--plaintiffs have the right to inquire into a reporter's "state of mind." Such a complex undertaking, stated the Chief Justice, "does not readily lend itself to summary disposition." Burger's aside sent a message to lower...
...decision overturning Scalia's opinion, the court seemed to say, "Ignore previous message." Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White held that when examining a motion for summary judgment, judges must determine "whether the evidence presented is such that a reasonable jury might find that actual malice had been shown with convincing clarity." Specifically, said White, judges must assess such evidence in light of the stringent "clear and convincing" standard of the landmark 1964 libel case, New York Times Co. vs. Sullivan. The effect would be to make libel complaints more difficult to justify at the pretrial stage...
...protracted negotiations with the city parks department and the Bryant Park Restoration Corp. and the New York Public Library (which adjoins the park) and all the private watchdog groups that doggedly keep watch over the fall of every sparrow. After nearly four years of effort and expense, with no actual building begun and no end in sight, LeRoy this spring abandoned the whole project. "The process has so many hands in it that it is terribly hard to do without being reduced to mediocrity," said LeRoy. "I don't know what the answer is. I know you can't ! just...