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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...endorses the idea of a four-part coalition government that would embrace and thereby, it is hoped, co-opt the Khmer Rouge. Speaking of the prospective coalition, Secretary of State James Baker told the Senate last month, "You're going to have the Khmer Rouge there . . . That's a fact of life." That is true only if the U.S. and the Khmer Rouge's principal patrons, China and Thailand, make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The Killing Fields Revisited | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...Khmer Rouge. Not unless and until the two non-Communist groups accept that realignment should Washington provide them with arms. The result would be a different three- against-one equation that might lead to the eventual disintegration of the Khmer Rouge. And that would be a far happier fact of life for Kampuchea -- as well as a consequence for U.S. policy of which Americans could, for a change, be proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The Killing Fields Revisited | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...exit of Control Data could aggravate U.S.-Japan trade friction over supercomputers. Says Etsuro Yamada, a spokesman for Fujitsu: "The fact is that Control Data lost in a fight with Cray, but that may not be the way the Americans will look at it." The U.S. has long complained about the Japanese government's failure to buy U.S.-made supercomputers. The two countries signed a 1987 accord in which Tokyo agreed to eliminate discrimination against U.S. supercomputer makers in the purchasing procedures of Japanese government agencies and universities. But since then, Tokyo has failed to buy a single U.S. supercomputer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Then There Was One | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

Knowing that even their owner wants them to lose and, in fact, does everything she can to make them lose, the players bond together and battle as a team...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Taking a Swing at the Movies | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

When you applaud a great defensive play thatoccurs in a movie, you know that it's realistic.Plus, even though most of the action is staged, itis frightengly accurate. In fact, the footage fromYankee Stadium and Fenway Park looks like it cameright off of NBC's Game of the Week...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Taking a Swing at the Movies | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

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