Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have begun to recognize the fact that I am officially entering the latter half of the initial phase of the beginning of the rest of my life. Granted, I don't know what this means yet, but I'll be 20 years old in the fall, and I'm not getting any younger. Why does it bother me so much that I'm beginning to sound like my parents...
...fact, the chemical workers' union and othersaccuse Mobil of misrepresenting its divestmentfrom South Africa. They charge that the companymay have sold its plants though it retainedlicensing agreements and allowed the new owner touse the Mobil logo...
...FACT Most of the 400,000 put to death during the revolution were shot, burned or drowned...
...FACT Attributed to an unnamed "princess," the remark appears in Rousseau's Confessions at least two years before Marie Antoinette arrived in France...
That could mean a direct hit or, more probably, another nerve-jangling near miss. But even if 1989FC never strikes earth, a similar asteroid is destined to do so eventually. It has happened so many times before, in fact, that the earth's surface would be as pockmarked as the moon's were it not for the cosmetic effects of erosion caused by the oceans and atmosphere. Half-mile asteroids are a dime a dozen in the solar system, and they run into the planet once every 100,000 years, on average. That means the next one could strike...