Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next day after Carter's surprisingly sunny forecast, White House aides tried to dispel the impression of presidential zigzagging. Fielding calls from politicians across the country, they insisted that Carter had not meant to imply that the overall gasoline squeeze was over. In fact, even when U.S. stocks of crude oil inch up to 1978 levels, as expected by July, they will fall short of demand by about...
That point and the fact that the case involved radioactive poisoning outside the plant itself have enormous implications, if the finding is sustained on appeal: a company might be held liable for the harm it caused employees and people outside the plant, no matter how stringently it obeyed regulations...
...integrating students' social and moral concerns into its administration. For one, this encourages an awareness and discussion of social problems lying outside the campus. This goal cannot merely be pursued in the classroom, as the Institute of Politics and Phillips Brooks House attest. Second, your own writing laments the fact that labor interests play so little role on the campus: "Colleges and universities too have a role to play in the labor field that up to now has been largely neglected...meager contacts seem particularly striking when they are compared with the interchange that goes on regularly between the universities...
...Naipaul is not the sort of writer who needs a metaphor to improve the clarity of his art. Yet this passage from his new novel, A Bend in the River, colors a simple botanical fact with the suggestion of a broader truth. Alex Haley notwithstanding, uprootedness remains the predominant theme of the times. The good modern novelists know this, and Naipaul is one of the best. He is also one of the most exotically unrooted, an Indian, born on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, who has spent most of his life in England. Like his friend Paul Theroux (The Great...
...miniature music boxes and grand-children. When used in reference to movies, one expects either Walt Disney or a charming but minor story of middle-aged love, a la Frank Gilroy's Once in Paris. But Francois Truffaut's new film Love on the Run is undeniably enchanting. In fact, it's perfect. Truffaut has created a flawless film which not only belongs to the genre of french romantic comedy, but which will be the yardstick other such films are measured against...