Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is any cause for optimism about the new season, it derives only from the fact that the ratings race should kill many of the new series early on. Already there is one potential casualty: last week ABC yanked Nobody's Perfect, another new detective comedy, from the fall schedule for extensive repairs. That trouble spot notwithstanding, former CBS Programming Chief Mike Dann predicts that ABC will once again sweep the Nielsens, winning 28 of prime time's 44 weekly half-hours, with CBS taking twelve and NBC four. Should this prognosis prove accurate -and it probably will...
Despite the fact that the immigrants stirred up antiforeign prejudices, by 1907 the attempt to assimilate them produced the democratic melting pot theory, though years passed before textbooks preached it. National self-confidence, meanwhile, was being further boosted by America's growing role on the global scene. David Saville Muzzey's An American History, the most successful U.S. history text ever, appeared...
...with equal emphasis, about much of Vonnegut's fiction. Jailbird is no exception. Still, it is his best book in years and may prompt a new generation of college kids to adopt the author and the novel. That act will, at the very least, teach them one important fact: reading...
...hard-working fact merchant," he said. "The days of wining and dining and getting things done by favoritism are gone...
Boggs and the Chrysler lobbying contingent indeed deal in facts--very selectively. The responsibility for Chrysler's failure, according to its own fact sheets, rests squarely on the federal government. Boggs says that the massive expenditures required to meet the government's pollution, safety and fuel economy standards have hit his client harder than its larger competitors, General Motors and Ford, and will eventually put Chrysler out of business...