Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increased communication is not enough. The sad fact is that all too often, Harvard acts like just another big developer in the city--buying and selling buildings with little regard for how these moves will affect city neighborhoods...
Union officials said from the start that the purpose of calling a secondary boycott was to attract the attention of Bush. The president continued to insist, despite the fact that most of Eastern's service had been halted, that the case was an isolated labor-management dispute...
...cost of educating a student at Harvard is only partially offset by the tuition it receives, even from those students who do not qualify for financial aid. In fact, student tuition and fees constituted less than 33 percent of the revenue Harvard received in 1988. The remaining 66 percent came from interest earned on the endowment (17.2%), private gifts (19.7%) and government and institutional grants (30.9%). As income from these sources has decreased as a percentage of total revenue over the past few years, Harvard has had to look to other places to pick up the slack. Moreover, the University...
...industry insists that most customers are not cheated because they are told their chances of having a baby are slim. And many fertility specialists doubt that misleading advertising is as prevalent as Wyden claims. In fact, his assertion that half the clinics have never had a birth may be overstated because at least some of them have not been open long enough for a patient to complete a pregnancy...
Duberman, a professor of history at Lehman College in New York City, is a scrupulous biographer. But he seems an ingenuous historian. In his view, Robeson became the target of "Cold War hysteria," and the sad outcome of a brilliant career was, in essence, "America's tragedy." But in fact, the wound was self-inflicted. The champion of minorities and laborers turned out to be oddly forgiving about crimes against humanity -- provided that they were committed in the Workers' Paradise. To him, Stalin's infamous purges were a $ proper way to deal with "counter-revolutionary assassins." The pact between...