Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anomaly, however, is the fact that despite the heights that interest rates have reached, there has been no shortage of cash for borrowers. Indeed, the money supply grew at a fast annual rate of close to 13% in the past two months. Though Volcker feels that the growth should be curbed, the spread of such financial innovations as credit cards and savings certificates tied to Treasury bill rates have lessened the Fed's ability to control the nation's money stock...
Hansen was stunned by the explosion of notoriety that ensued. "I'm a very ordinary person," he said last week. "I never dreamed that my letter to Senator Percy would ever be published." In fact, publication was all but inevitable, since the letter somehow reached half a dozen papers. First the Peninsula Times Tribune (circ. 65,800) of Palo Alto, Calif...
...towering works as Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath earned him a Nobel Prize in 1962. But the honor did not bring a revival. Steinbeck declined into illness and disillusion. Kiernan reports that when the author died at 66, in 1968, he "had grudgingly accepted the fact that his own artistic productivity had long ended" - as evidenced by the potboilers that marred his later years: East of Eden and The Winter of Our Discontent...
...fact, that presence seems to have remained fairly steady since the mid-1960s - as has the U.S. military presence in Cuba, in the form of the large U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo...
...tung, the ruler whose life had been dedicated to overturning the values, the structure, and the appearance of traditional China, lived in fact in the Imperial City, as withdrawn and mysterious even as the emperors he disdained. Nobody ever had a scheduled appointment; one was admitted to a presence, not invited to a governmental authority. I saw Mao five times. On each occasion I was summoned suddenly. On one visit Mao expressed interest in meeting my wife Nancy. The fact that she was shopping presented no obstacle to our hosts. She was hustled out of a shop by a protocol...