Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Velikhov and Arbatov are, in fact, both advisers to Gorbachev. They came to the TV set straight from a stormy government meeting and brought with them a sense of reality that put The Blue X Conspiracy in perspective. While waiting ^ for a reply to a hot-line message to Washington, the Soviet team agreed that, however complex and serious, the problems in the simulation paled compared with those Gorbachev faces in the real world...
Deputy Energy Secretary Henson Moore claims that the revised schedule is necessary to satisfy scientific and environmental concerns. "This is in fact a realistic reappraisal rather than a delay," he says. But to critics, it is yet another sign of bureaucratic bungling. Two years and $500 million into the Yucca project, the federal agency appears to have accomplished little. John Tuck, Under Secretary of Energy, conceded last week that the department did not have a "scientifically sound plan" for assessing the site's suitability as a dump...
Politics is not an intellectual pursuit for her; her political education was her own experience as a black woman. She never marched in the civil rights movement; her parents were her political models. "I can't separate myself from the fact that I grew up as a black child. My parents were quietly defiant of racism. I was born and raised in the North, but my roots are solidly in the South. In the summers we drove south to Canton, Miss., where my mother was from. My father would always ask, whenever we stopped for gas, if they had toilets...
...that for so long enabled a despised leadership to maintain its grip. Havel's work depicts the idiocy of entrenched bureaucracies and the power of language to twist and distort ideas. It also highlights the unwitting complicity of ordinary citizens in the maintenance of totalitarian regimes. "Everyone is in fact involved and enslaved," Havel once told TIME. "Each person is capable, to a greater or lesser degree, of coming to terms with living within the lie." Almost alone in his quest, Havel has refused to compromise...
...fact, most stood by Aquino, including Senate President Jovito Salonga, who has been critical of her policies. "It took so many years and so much sacrifice to get rid of the dictatorship," said Salonga. "We must protect this democracy despite all its faults and weaknesses...