Word: actually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five justices on the Mass court agreed that the actual risk was not great. In his dissenting opinion, Justice Neil L. Lynch wrote that the ban itself was not based on substantial evidence. "It is unmistakably clear that the [Cambridge] commissioner's action is not supported by substantial evidence," wrote Lynch, adding that the ban was issued even before any studies of the plant had been completed...
Whatever course she chooses, the charting will likely prove smoother than the actual sailing. It Moore is to guide the GSAS to its appointed destination, she will have to negotiate choppy waters against the current of strong-willed departments, professors, and her own boss--the dean of the College
...Prime Minister insisted that drastic reform was necessary "to prevent an actual collapse" of the Israeli economy. After seven months of voluntary wage and price restraints, the country's inflation rate is still soaring at 300% annually. Burdened with enormous military expenditures and extensive social-welfare programs, the government last year ran a $1.8 billion deficit on a $23 billion budget. The foreign debt, the world's highest per capita, has reached $23 billion, and foreign-currency reserves have dropped to $2 billion...
...same, the drama we would miss would no doubt be riveting. Evil is riveting. From watching Hitchcock we know of the perverse, and fully human, enjoyment that comes from looking evil dead in the eye. But when the evil is real and the suffering actual, that enjoyment is tinged with shame, the kind of shame one experiences when exposed to pornography...
Martha Grimes is an American mystery writer who up till now has forsworn the traditional metier of her countrymen, the novel of action, in favor of dead-on English-village mysteries of the kind wrought by Britons a half-century ago. Her seven novels have all been named for actual pubs, most of them in the English countryside, and until Help the Poor Struggler they have involved a quirky trio: a stereotypically literary, sensitive bachelor detective from Scotland Yard, a fey, scholarly nobleman who has eccentrically given up his titles, and, usually, the nobleman's meddling, Wodehousian aunt. That arch...