Word: actually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Client Services Manager John Mitch of the Harvard News Office says that the number of visitors taking official University tours--a tiny fraction of the actual tourist load--climbs sharply in the summer, with six to eight 40-person tours on an average...
Whether we're sending an actual paper to a teaching fellow or corresponding with a potential employer, our reliance on e-mail requires a reliable means of recovering lost data...
...practical effect would be to give Internet commerce several years of exemption from the sales tax whenever other mail-order methods are effectively exempt. By requiring neutrality between Internet commerce and other mail order, the bill effectively requires discrimination that favors Internet commerce over shopping at actual stores...
...almost as though the movie is purposely trying to put the audience's brains asleep so that they can better appreciate the entertainment potential of bugs eating people by the time the actual warfare rolls around...
Movies like Star Wars, the pioneer of effects-laden movies, engendered "The Making of..." specials in which audiences saw that the production of the special effects was sometimes as interesting, and requires as much ingenuity, as their placement in the actual movie. Now, it's simply: "Oh, they did that with computers." We are by now so numbed to realistic-looking explosions and sci-fi stuff in movies that we take their existence for granted...