Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gopher Fact: Before Saturday's title game, Minnesota had posted a perfect 21-0 record in games where it led after the first period...
...initiatives--which include pulling out of Afghanistan, signing the INF, adopting hard-line budgeting, providing more and better consumer products and importing Coca-Cola, Billy Joel and openess--are themselves symptomatic of a dilemma which looms large in Kremlin minds. The Soviets are coming to grips with the fact that they cannot economically or politically afford to keep up the arms race and their policy of expansion at the expense of domestic priorities...
...short, the rise of the new era in East-West relations is not due to some new-found good intentions in the Kremlin but rather to the fact that Gorbachey sought a solution to problems--created by long-term American post-war policies--immediately besetting the Soviet Union...
Still, Arafat's recognition of Israel's right to exist -- expressed in language acceptable to Washington if not to Jerusalem -- has altered the political dynamics. The fact that five prominent American Jews coaxed Arafat until he finally got his rhetoric right in December demonstrated the changing role of American Jewry. When one of the quintet, Menachem Rosensaft, returned from the Stockholm meeting with Arafat, an effort was made to oust him as head of the Labor Zionist Alliance and member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. He survived the attempted purge, and remains a vehement critic...
...invites trespass by symbol hunters. One can easily imagine college sophomores arguing over the meaning of a stuffed armadillo that has had its claws removed, or the significance of Wheelwright's carrying his small friend on his shoulders to slam-dunk a basketball. For graduate students there is the fact that Meany shares more than initials with Oskar Matzerath, the runt hero of Gunter Grass's masterpiece, The Tin Drum...