Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, I believe very strongly that Germany has confronted its history more sincerely and openly than many other nations. The horrendous deeds committed in the German name have forced Germans to break with the recent past. At no level is there a desire for repetition...
...really, do not like the idea of writing this letter in defense of the Germans as a people. In fact, there are a lot of things I strongly dislike about some Germans, just as I disagree with many other people. But since Cooper attacked the Germans as a people, and, by implication, me personally, I feel I had to respond and claim that the Germans as a whole are not essentially different from other people. Rather than making wholesale accusations, it would be more constructive to address specific issues arising from the rapid changes now taking place in Eastern Europe...
...United States today, over half the eligible voters no longer vote for President and far fewer vote in off-year state and local elections. In fact, the United States now has the lowest voter turnout of any industrialized nation in the world, with the vast majority of poor and young people not voting. Further, in 1988, 99 percent of incumbent members of Congress were reelected. This strongly suggest that, due to the power of incumbency, our system of representative democracy has broken down completely and that election to Congress is now tantamount to lifetime tenure--a House of Lords...
...reliance on astrology, her feuds with White House chief of staff Donald Regan and her troubled relations with her children. "When she'd say, 'Now Bill, you're not going to talk about this,' I'd use the editors: 'But the editors insist on these subjects,' " says Novak. "The fact is, if you ask readers to pay $22 for a book, you have to reveal new material. Ironically, the better known the person the more they must reveal." Recalls Reagan: "There were tough, difficult times and good times. But I wanted it honest and personal...
Peterson and Morita have a point. When Australian Rupert Murdoch was taking substantial control of major American media properties (including Metromedia Inc. and 20th Century Fox), little was written about the dangers of media manipulation from Down Under. Reportage focused less on the fact that the predator was Australian (Murdoch has since acquired American citizenship) than that he was Murdoch. Nor did warnings sound when Canada's Thomson Newspapers acquired more than 100 papers...