Word: factly
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...outreach to the Communist world and is now the Secretary of State (prime minister) of Pope John Paul's Vatican. Religion, Casaroli asserted, is an "uncontestable reality" in daily life and "cannot be neglected" by authorities. Some of the Bolshoi festivities were carried to a nationwide TV audience, a fact that impressed one visiting churchman: "What do you think it says to millions of faithful in the Soviet Union? It means the government thinks religion is not 'the opium of the people.' It's a clear break with classic Marxist ideology...
Rogers' current campaign could be equally futile. Unlike most unionized companies, IP negotiates on a plant-by-plant basis. At present, only four of the firm's 26 mills are affected, a fact that mitigates IP's sense of urgency about settling. Before the lockout and strike, workers at the four plants were more or less happy with business as usual; at an average wage of $13.55 an hour, and with considerable overtime, some mill hands were earning more than $40,000 a year. But at several mills the company insisted on eliminating "premium pay," the double wage that paperworkers...
Money talks if nobody squawks. An economic determinist would not be surprised that the victors were the candidates with a built-in fund-raising advantage. But in hindsight it is striking that the overstuffed larders of Bush and Dukakis never became campaign issues. The Vice President, in fact, only narrowly edged Dole and Robertson in the greenback derby; the difference was that Bush husbanded his cash far more effectively. Dukakis cleverly deployed a ; bogus PAC-man issue to keep his underfunded rivals on the defensive. Political-action-committee funding may be a problem in congressional races...
...superman myth is reinforced by the fact that he can "push a button" and destroy large swaths of the globe. But that is a wholly unused and wholly unusable power. In reality, the American President is one of the least powerful chief executives in the West. He cannot even pass his own budget, a minimal attribute of governance...
Kinnock attributed his switch to the progress toward nuclear disarmament made by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. "We would be complete fools" to ignore that fact, he said. Conservative Defense Minister George Younger ridiculed Kinnock's new policy as "totally inadequate." Labor M.P. Eric Heffer, a veteran left-winger, charged Kinnock with "backsliding" and moaned that "my worst fears are coming to fruition...