Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reforms" of the Shah's regime [Nov. 13] represent too little too late. All the economic and geopolitical reasoning on his behalf cannot paper over the fact that the widespread discontent is the result of 25 years of unprecedented repression and bad government practices. The Shah cannot solve problems when his people perceive him to be the very root of these problems. For Americans, all this is a sobering lesson on the perils of backing a dictatorship...
...fact that we have borrowed vocabulary from the violent game of football to describe sexual behavior sheds a great deal of light on our current standards of eroticism. Mr. Dundes has reversed the analogy...
White was a law-and-order conservative who viewed both the progressive mayor and Milk as overly tolerant of criminals and nonconformists. White had, in fact, won election as supervisor last year partly by campaigning, in effect, against gays. "There are thousands upon thousands of frustrated, angry people waiting to unleash a fury that can and will eradicate the malignancies which blight our city," his brochures declared. "I am not going to be forced out of San Francisco by splinter groups of radicals, social deviates, incorrigibles...
What the wanderer finds upon arrival is unsurpassed tolerance for every lifestyle, a bracing climate and stunning beauty. Most newcomers flourish; in fact, to the more inhibited East, there are signs of overflourishing. Proclaim ads for $1,500 redwood hot tubs: "There's laughter, playful splashing, quiet conversations . . . it exactly fits the spirit of our time." Other new products include portable solar water heaters for backpackers, and organic dog food...
...task of removing the bodies from Guyana and embalming them was expensive, but the Government would not yet predict the total costs. The fact that U.S. taxpayers were bearing the cost upset at least two Congressmen, Illinois Republican Philip Crane and Rhode Island Democrat Edward Beard. They publicly protested the use of federal funds (unofficial estimates of the cost have run as high as $8 million) to transport and process the decayed remains. Said Crane: "Although the entire situation is deplorable, the responsibility to bring the loved ones back to the United States rests with the families, not the Federal...