Word: factly
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...generations and an evolving admissions policy cannot camoflauge the fact that many grandparents would not have been welcome here. Such personal ties to Harvard underlay most individual donations. Eliot, explaining the rationale behind giving, said "the men in this generation who have had the benefit of these funds, and who succeeded in after life, will pay manyfold to their successors...
...sometimes whites feel that all white people are being similarly equated, when in fact attitudes among whites range from the Ku Klux Klan right over to the saints...
During the past two decades, however, that center has dropped away. The central fact about mainline Protestantism in the U.S. today is that it is in deep trouble. This stunning turnabout is apparent in the unprecedented hemorrhaging of memberships in the three major faiths that date from colonial times. The United Church of Christ (which includes most Congregationalists) has shrunk 20% since 1965, the Presbyterian Church 25%, and the Episcopal Church 28%. As for two related denominations that mushroomed in the 19th century, the United Methodist Church has dropped 18%, and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) 43% after...
...ordinary citizen, a big jump in the unemployment rate seems like bad news. What could possibly be good about the fact that almost 400,000 more people were out of work in April than in the preceding month? After all, that painful increase hurts not only those without jobs and their families, but the malls and supermarkets where they shop as well. Yet when the Government reported that joblessness rose by 0.3% to 5.3% in April, financial insiders ( applauded, the bond market surged while stocks staged a brief but sharp rally, and publications ranging from USA Today to investment-house...
...Abstract, 32,000 copies of which were bought last year, is the product of Government statisticians, with backgrounds ranging from economics to political science, who pore over newspapers and scientific treatises to unearth facts. They rely on more than 200 sources and spend a year putting together a single volume, at a bargain-basement cost of $600,000. Naturally, the authors are looking forward to the huge 1990 census, with its treasure trove of information. Updated data from that survey should begin to appear in the 1991 edition. If one obscure fact or another happens to be missing from...