Search Details

Word: factual (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...second coming directly from the Bible. Although Crist points out Christians understand much of the Bible is meant to be taken symbolically, these Harvard students tend to be like Donovan, who says she "lives out of the Bible." They accept it as the word of God and a factual, historical document...

Author: By Anne E. Bartlett, | Title: By the Book: Fundamentalist Christians at Harvard | 10/26/1977 | See Source »

Springer Verlag, which owns twelve other German publications, attacked Wallraff in a sulfurous rebuttal: "He is a man who lies and falsifies stories in order to obtain material for his books." Springer went to court charging 14 specific instances of factual error. It is hardly Wallraff's first encounter with the law. He has been prosecuted twice for impersonating government and corporate employees, but the charges were dismissed. On ten other occasions, Wallraff's victims have won injunctions requiring that unsubstantiated allegations be deleted from his writings. Of the Springer petition for injunction, which may be decided this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Great Impostor | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

INSURANCE PROBES. These provide an almost inexhaustible supply of horror stories. Denver District Attorney Dale Tooley discovered that 55 insurance companies used Factual Service Bureau Inc. of Chicago, whose gumshoes impersonated clergymen and doctors. This enabled them to winnow information from hospitals, the FBI, the Veterans Administration, the Social Security Administration and the IRS. Because of Tooley's probe, 20 individuals and companies -including Factual Service, Home In demnity Co. of New York, Northwestern National Insurance Co. of Milwaukee and Reliance Insurance Co. of Ohio -are being prosecuted for theft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIVACY: Striking Back At the Super Snoops | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

Specialists in arms control, for example, credit the agency with providing what one calls "a good factual and technical base," on developments in Soviet military research and strategic weaponry. Says an Administration expert in Soviet affairs: 'The information provided by the CIA and the rest of the intelligence community has provided the whole foundation for our position in the SALT talks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CIA: An Old Salt Opens Up the Pickle Factory | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...airline captain for one of our largest carriers, I congratulate you on doing a fair and factual piece on aviation safety [April 11]. The machines have become as sound and foolproof as man can design-but man himself is the weak link...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1977 | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

Previous | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | Next