Word: factual
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Want to know how many credit cards Americans carry? Or how many dozen eggs the U.S. produces each year? The answers to these questions (841 million and 5.8 billion, respectively) and an astounding number of others are to be found in a factual gold mine called the Statistical Abstract of the United States, a 984-page volume packed full of figures from the mundane to the delightful. First published in 1878, the Abstract each spring sends librarians, market researchers, consultants and journalists scurrying to mine its nuggets. But the Census Bureau publication goes well beyond gee-whiz numbers...
More disturbing than the factual error was The Crimson reporter's intimation that in contesting my failing grade on a Math 1b make-up final examination, I am taking advantage of my disability to shirk my academic responsibilities. A correction printed in The Crimson on April 15 acknowledged that "the article also contained misleading inferences that the student failed to cooperate with the registrar's office in arranging for the exam." A mere correction buried on page four of The Crimson is, however, insufficient. In impugning my motives, the article prejudices the entire University community against any sensitivity...
Busby's response is visceral. A similar finding from Robert Lichter of the Center for Media and Public Affairs is factual. He records all the network evening news shows and analyzes them. Bush's presence is diminishing, that of Cabinet officers and other Administration spokesmen rising. The White House now is the focus of Administration news only about half the time, compared with 72% in the first days. "So far," says Lichter, "the 'just folks' presidency is working. Bush gets less press but better press. Bush is far more visible to the press than he is to the public, just...
...between The Crimson and minority student groups could be made to encourage more minority students who are in touch with the minority community to join the paper's staff. Perhaps they could lend a more comprehensive view of stories being covered, as well as assist in the location of factual information...
...speech entitled "History and Rememory: An Historian Looks At Toni Morrison's Beloved," Professor Jacqueline Jones said it is normally difficult for historians to speculate about the lives of slave women because primary sources written by whites or escaped slaves are unemotional and factual...