Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baghdad, the Foreign Ministers of 18 Arab countries and the Palestine Liberation Organization had agreed to take diplomatic and economic action against Egypt, including the breaking of diplomatic relations and the removal of Arab League headquarters from Cairo to Tunis. On the day of Begin's arrival, in fact, almost all Arab ambassadors were bound for Cairo airport on their way home. Sadat's willingness to receive Begin at such a moment suggested to foreign observers the degree of his determination to stay on his present course...
...stockholders. They include not only a great number of small investors (no single stockholder owns more than 0.1% of the shares), but also pension funds, banks, universities and other institutions. In effect, these institutions manage the money of millions of ordinary wage earners-the very people, in fact, whom Carter now urges to rise up and keep the oil firms from having an excuse "to cheat the public and to damage the nation...
...protection of such people may seem an unlikely crusade for Hanbury-Tenison, a handsome, blue-eyed member of the English landed gentry who bears a resemblance to Actor Peter O'Toole and harbors a love of adventure. In fact, that love was his first. In 1958, after finishing up at Oxford, he and Roommate Richard Mason made an unprecedented westward traverse of South America, crossing some 6,000 miles of mountain and jungle by Jeep...
...processed minority applications. Students fear a further decline in black enrollment at the graduate level, down from 256 in 1973 to 183 this year. But the Supreme Court's decision supporting white Medical School Applicant Allan Bakke has discouraged protest. "Sign carrying would be sort of after the fact now," says one Stanford student. "I guess we'll just have to see how the new plan works...
Fiction can anticipate fact. The cold war, espionage and terrorist novels of the past 20 years were often uncannily predictive; their plots now seem too true to be good. Technology is today's hot pistol, and it is in the hands of the amateur. It may be possible, for example, to heist Plutonium and fashion bombs to hold the world hostage. Private scientists might produce gene-altering chemicals. Almost any handyman can assemble a plastique weapon aimed at a Prime Minister or a whole city block. It is almost a natural consequence that in fiction, the old-line security...