Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first-year mentor saw that Keyte's mound problems were due to the fact that he had "changed his motion without telling me a week-and-a-half ago. I have no idea why he did it. Unbelievable. I changed him back in the third inning," Nahigian said...
Pompan, in fact, doesn't break down in any phase of life. A study in ceaseless energy, he works on his pre-med course-work non-stop sometimes even at matches and once he starts talking it's tough to make him stop...
...fact all those First Lady headlines distract from the real meaning of the Conservative victory at the polls: the new Thatcher government professes the most right-wing program seen in British politics since World War II. The Conservative majority of 43 seats in the new House of Commons was culled from a Britain increasingly divided into 'two nations...
...disdained, as he put it, "to be packaged like cornflakes." She also knows that in a one-on-one, Presidential-style contest with Callaghan, she might have lost hands down: the same polls which showed large Tory leads also put Callaghan way ahead in personal popularity. The striking fact, however, is that with a 75 per cent voter turnout, and a national voting swing of 5 per cent--the highest in decades--the electorate went decisively for Tory policies, scorning the middle-ground consensus on which both major parties had traditionally operated, and which had been considered indispensable both...
...when similar incentives from the Conservative government of Edward Heath merely produced property speculation, a record low in productive investment and an inflationary consumer boom. The Tories have claimed they will provide some of the money by allowing private investment in state-run industries--but this ignores the fact that most state enterprises were taken over by both parties in the past not because of socialist zeal but because private enterprise had failed to run them profitably. They are hardly a good risk for capitalist investors...