Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some borrowers while maintaining the confidence, and therefore the cooperation, of lenders. Announced by Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady in March and endorsed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as well as at the economic summit in Paris last week, the plan calls for "reducing" -- in fact, forgiving -- some principal and interest, thus freeing borrowers' resources for growth. The banks end up holding IOUs that have a lower face value but a higher chance of being repaid. The increased prospect of the debtor nations' economic and political stability becomes reassuring collateral...
...National security requires only that governments be able to detect militarily significant violations early enough so that they can do something about them. "Adequate" verification is indispensable to reducing the risks. Recent reports from the negotiating tables suggest that both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have awakened to that fact...
...consumed the entire catch, the victim was simply recorded as an "unknown." Otherwise, the identification process was simple, the scientists report, although "initially -- the study began during the summer months -- it was rather smelly." Surprisingly enough, they write, "the villagers were much less squeamish than we had expected." In fact, some went about their assigned task with great gusto, placing their cats' trophies in home freezers to await collection...
Will cat fanciers find these conclusions unsettling? Evidently not. When the authors' work was published earlier in a scientific journal, including the fact that a few Bedfordshire cats had each contributed as many as 100 items of prey to the study, they received letters from other cat owners boasting of their own pets' prowess. The record, they report, is currently held by a cat from Dorset that dragged in more than 400 little creatures in one year. The scientists are aghast. "These proud owners," they report, "seem quite unperturbed by the slaughter...
Galvin, the chair of the House's Government Regulations Committee, refuses to accept the NFL's line, pointing to the fact that the league releases daily injury reports--which are valuable tools for handicappers, as well as opposing scouts. And the league never complains when pre-game shows and newspapers announce the point spreads for its games, Galvin notes...