Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study of 24 Harvard classes, conducted by Lecturer on Education Catherine Krupnick, women underparticipated in every section with a minority of women. In fact, women only participated as much as their male counterparts when women were in the majority and there was a female section leader...
...acclaimed by Institutional Investor as the finest in the world; one of its more than 11,000 restaurants is registered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest in the world; and one of its 63 discos is among the world's three biggest. Here, in fact, is a travel agent's dream: first-class services at Third World prices, exoticism crossed with elegance. With the Thai baht tied to the declining dollar, Thailand has come to mean the "Land of the Free" in more ways than one. Yet at the same time, the sinuous grace...
...years. As fast as Thailand has come to Hollywood (there are scores of Thai restaurants on Melrose Avenue alone), Hollywood has come to Thailand (shooting across the political spectrum, from The Killing Fields to Rambo III). So giddy is the world's romance with the smiling kingdom, in fact, that some people fear the country could lose itself in the lights, or turn into a synthetic version of itself...
...most closely contested large state, and Dukakis cannot win without it. Though the state has gone Republican in eight of the past nine elections, it has an affection for change that the Democrat is fighting to exploit. Neither candidate has a natural claim on Californians' sentiments. That, and the fact that two of the state's baseball teams made the play-offs, is slowing voters' decision making...
...South Korea's ritualized clashes between students and police. The camouflage uniforms of Syrian commandos are peach and purple, which "must give excellent protective coloration in, say, a room full of Palm Beach divorcees in Lily Pulitzer dresses." On Sandinistas as an attraction for junketeers: "There are probably more fact-finding tours of Nicaragua right now than there are facts...