Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could indeed lose them. In fact, at least two of Bush's top advisers predict -- strictly off the record and perhaps in a sly effort to lower expectations -- that he will. But in the past two months, Dukakis' once commanding lead in the California polls has disappeared, shrinking from 16 points to a statistically meaningless 1 point. One reason: several of the social issues Bush has been hammering on (opposition to new taxes and gun control, approval of the death penalty) have already been endorsed overwhelmingly by California voters in recent ballot initiatives. Republicans have greatly increased their registration...
...good reason, since the idea is crazy. Even Goldman recognizes that the discipline accepted by the Beatles proved liberating. With the album Rubber Soul, he writes, "Lennon was employing the new medium of pop song like a serious artist." In fact, when Lennon could harness his wit and rage within commercial demands, he simply blew away restraints and claimed new territory for the popular imagination. What, then, compelled him to destroy the most successful performing group on earth? Why did he consign his fate to a woman who would later ask friends, "How can that oaf be so successful when...
...memorial for Japanese war dead. As recently as last April, Japanese Land Agency Director General Seisuke Okuno unleashed a flood of criticism from Beijing with his remark that Japan was "by no means the aggressor nation in World War II," a claim the Chinese labeled as "contrary to historical fact." If Okuno had not resigned, Takeshita's visit to China most likely would have been scrubbed at Beijing's insistence...
...Department of Education warned in 1983, a foreign power scheming to weaken America could not have concocted a more insidious plot than the debasement of public education. The threat to U.S. security ranges from the fact that nearly a quarter of military recruits cannot understand written safety instructions to the growing shortage of students in science and engineering. At the dawn of a new era of international competition, less than one-quarter of public high school students are currently enrolled in a foreign-language course. The bulk of American students cannot locate the world's most important nations...
...court on charges of gender discrimination. Clare Dalton, and associate professor of law whose tenure case was rejected by Bok this winter, has appealed to the federal judiciary, as has Jackson at the Business School. While their cases are difficult to judge, the discrimination claims themselves underline the fact that Harvard is not welcoming women into its ranks with open arms...