Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Harvard men's basketball team takes the court against Yale tonight, there won't be any national titles at stake. In fact, not even an Ivy crown will be contested...
...fact the agency's effort in Iran was modest, especially by later standards. It cost no more than $20 million to restore the Shah to the throne and ensure (if only in the short term) American influence in the area. Dulles cleverly hid the importance of luck in the successful coup and revelled in the image of invincibility acquired by the CIA. The CIA mythe was born in Iran and the 1953 coup bears much responsibility for the subsequent expansion of covert activities so that they came to dominate the agency...
...Fayer's not the only top-notch swimmer the Crimson's lost. In fact, the entire four-women contingent that made-up last year's Ivy Champion relay squad is gone...
...PRAGMATIC failures only hide the basic flaws in press coverage and national attitudes during foreign policy debates. Intervening in somebody else's internal politics is more than just stupid, impractical and ultimately rarely successful; it is wrong. In fact, pragmatic failures ultimately have their roots in the essentially immoral nature of any such intervention. In Iran, the frustrating, tragedy-engendering contradiction that helped spark the awesome wave of opposition to the Shah lies in the conflict between President Carter's apparent commitment to basic human rights (that had raised opposition hopes that the U.S. would pressure the Shah...
...slanted coverage when it wrote that "the Shah even invited (opposition leader) Mr. Sanjabi to the palace was a dramatic compromise for him. The founder of Mr. Sanjabi's party, Mohammed Mossadegh, almost ousted the Shah from power in 1953." The Times story reversed who ousted whom--in fact, the Shah regained the throne in 1953 when his CIA-backed coup overthrew the democratically elected Mossadegh government...