Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visitors were mildly surprised at the candor of their hosts. Officials freely admit, for example, that bribery occurs within the Vietnamese bureaucracy, though they insist that corruption is "not common." In fact, it is very common indeed. An exit visa can be bought with $2,000 in gold, and the cost of other services varies accordingly...
National Chairman Lewis B. ("Bud") Maytag would say only that Pan Am's offer would be carefully studied. But he has fought Texas International's bid from the start. National executives dislike the idea of being swallowed by a relatively small regional airline, and in fact they had been talking merger with Pan Am since January. Pan Am is stronger than it has been in years. Not long ago, there were fears that it might go bankrupt because of the pressures of rising fuel prices and unprofitable overseas routes, especially after the company lost $107 million in 1974. But under...
Pressure from local citizens' groups and architects, however, convinced the Boston Redevelopment Authority that the markets could in fact be recycled-not pristinely restored as museum pieces but refurbished and adapted as living, working sources of tax revenues. The most energetic proponent of restoration, Architect Thompson began negotiating with real estate developers, and in 1974, the city of Boston leased Faneuil Hall Marketplace to the Rouse Co. of Columbia, Md. Only after the planners agreed to stagger the opening of the buildings (Quincy Market opened in August 1976, the South Market in August 1977) did the banks agree...
...black holes science's Heffalumps? Absolutely not, insist black-hole theorists, who are among today's best and brightest scientific minds. In fact, they say, the universe probably teems with these bizarre apertures...
...incredible violence?of exploding galaxies and stars, of prodigiously energetic quasars, a universe that still literally reverberates from its fiery birth. Many scientists are all but convinced that black holes lie at the root of many of these awesome events. They are fascinated and somewhat frustrated by the fact that the immense gravity of black holes prevents any escape from them. As a consequence, says Harvard Physicist Larry Smarr, "there are parts of the universe from which, in principle, we cannot get any information...