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Genocide theorists deploy a welter of sociological facts and half-facts to buttress their case. Among them...
...buttress his claim, the former employee cites a personal letter Ehrman apparently sent to members of her family in February 1987. In the complaint, Kupelnick says he received the letter "anonymously through the mail" shortly after he was notified of his termination...
...buttress its military strategy, Japan forged ties with another international outcast -- Germany. In 1936 they signed a pact to oppose Communism that included secret protocols to come to the other's aid during a war with the Soviet Union. With Berlin balancing out Moscow, Tokyo accelerated its conquest of China with another "incident." On July 7, 1937, a Japanese soldier stationed near Beijing's Marco Polo Bridge left his post to urinate. His superiors announced that he had been abducted by a nearby Chinese garrison and began shelling the unit. Japanese forces soon overran eastern China...
Some experts viewed the Paramount tactic as a move to buttress its position in Delaware chancery court, where Paramount contends that Time is in effect interfering with its shareholders' desire to tender their stock. "This will add a notch to Paramount's legal argument, but it will only put pressure on Time if 70% to 90% of its shareholders tender their stock to Paramount," said Jeffrey Greenblatt, a partner in Cambridge Capital Holdings. "Time does not have to take any new defensive steps," he added, "because there is no threat that Paramount will be able to acquire Time's stock...
...work. The dead apparently did not matter either to the aging revolutionaries who came to power by force 40 years ago -- and used force to keep it. Reason itself did not seem to matter. The government that once trumpeted the need to "seek truth from facts" manufactures facts to buttress lies...