Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nobody has emerged, however, to claim that Hazelwood ever drank heavily aboard the Valdez; in fact, his management of the ship won the praise of superiors. Both in 1987 and 1988 the Valdez was singled out for a prestigious company award for "safety and performance." Nevertheless, he was increasingly disillusioned with his career, largely for reasons ranging from longer work hours and frozen pay levels to the growing powerlessness of captains to make their own judgments. A week before the oil spill, Hazelwood told a friend that he was thinking about taking a job as a harbor pilot...
...turn this vessel, it's as big as a building," says Michael Chalos, a maritime attorney who represents Hazelwood. "She has a beam of 166 ft. and a height from the waterline of about 75 ft. when fully loaded. The Coast Guard is trying to cover up for the fact that they were not properly monitoring her movements...
...public comment on the accident except for a terse statement that was released by his lawyers. "I feel terrible about the effects of the spill," it reads, "but I'm just an ordinary fellow caught up in an extraordinary situation -- a situation which I had little control over." In fact, Hazelwood is no ordinary fellow, and one could argue that he should have exercised much more control over many aspects of his life. But those are not reasons to rush to judgment about the events that led to the fiasco in Prince William Sound...
...hall was blocked from sight by the press stand. "Your people and your leaders -- government and opposition alike -- are not afraid to break with the past, to act in the spirit of truth," Bush told the students. "And what better example of this could there be than one simple fact: Karl Marx University has dropped Das Kapital from its required reading list." All over the hall George Bush, a proud product of U.S capitalism, saw the young Hungarians break into wide smiles and nod in agreement...
...seemed fairly limited for most Americans. There was always television, of course, or a trip to the local movie house. But nowadays, with the boom in the U.S. entertainment industry and the proliferation of cable TV, VCRs, computers and compact discs, the possibilities can seem limitless. So limitless, in fact, that many Americans appear to suffer from information anxiety, the inability to choose from among the riches available...