Word: factly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the Harvard Corporation has acted on the ROTC motion presented by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, there is a crying need to make one fact crystal clear: the action which has been taken is emphatically political, not academic...
Highest and Lowest. Americans are undoubtedly the world's highest-paid people, though Europeans and Japanese collect far flossier fringe benefits. Still, a $7,000-a-year bank teller hardly feels happy about the fact that he may be earning 25% more than his Continental counterpart. The human tendency is to gauge compensation not by one's needs but by the relative pay of peers-countrymen, colleagues and neighbors. Many truck drivers last year earned more than $15,000, thanks to the Teamsters' knack of squeezing out the most in wage negotiations. Human nature being what...
Land prices are nearing record levels, and choice industrial sites sell for $23 per square foot, more than ten times the price of comparable U.S. industrial sites. About 140 U.S. firms have moved their offices from Japan to Hong Kong, and foreign investors have been attracted by the fact that the colony has no capital gains tax and a maximum tax on gross income of only 15%. Wages remain low, averaging $13.50 for a 50-hour week, but per capita annual income has risen in three years from...
...emerging as one of the major capitals of the whit rock world (along with London, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles) and it is clear in retrospect that the notorious apathy and lack of interest displayed by Boston crowds in earlier years was merely a function of the fact that three were just no congenial rock dance-halls around. Which is another way of saying that the Boston Tea Party is doing for Boston what the Fillmore Ballroom did for San Francisco...
EVERY INCH of wall space is covered with light shows of various kinds indifferent themes, with pictures ranging from ten foot high shots of Janis Joplin's singing face to Egyptian hieroglyphics. Fascinating things happen in isolated corners with the slides, but these shows are in fact all pre-programmed by computer; there is not the spontaneity and musical relevance of the Tea Party's light show, but rather a static grace...