Word: factualism
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Fourth, I have no factual details on what happened to the individuals given "radiation" without their knowledge--actions, I wish to repeat, that I would now deplore. However, on the basis of long experience, I suspect that no harm whatever befell them...
...health experts established that Sean had severe brain damage as a result of an injury as a child. The U.S. Court of Appeal, noting that M.P.D. was "virtually unknown at the time of Sellers' trial," stated that his "illness is such that he may be able to prove his factual innocence." But the federal court couldn't overturn the state judgment...
Those numbers were not lost on the Senators stapled to their seats as Clinton's lawyers launched their defense. The lawyers' presentation was more factual, more respectful and more effective than anything they managed in the House. The idea was to alternate sober, numbing presentations of exculpatory evidence with passionate appeals to common sense and American ideals. Ruff opened the defense with a grave dissection of the House managers' conspiracy theory. He argued that the chronology broke down--Vernon Jordan was already on a plane to Europe when Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled that the Paula Jones team could question...
Microsoft also contends that the government's factual case--those e-mails about dividing up the Internet-browser market, the deals that reward companies for using Microsoft's browser--is based on a fundamental misunderstanding about how the computer industry works. When the company leans hard on rivals, it says, it's playing typical high-tech hardball. Oracle, Intel or Apple, Microsoft insists, would do no differently. And meetings that look collusive to lawyers in Washington are required in an industry where rival products must fit together. "There have to be some standards," says Neukom. "That means collaboration, that means...
...Before the President steps up, however, his lawyers will change gear in their defense strategy. Instead of primarily emphasizing that the charges against the President don't meet the constitutional standard for impeachment, they'll first try to systematically refute the prosecution's case on key factual issues -- which is why it may ultimately suit them to lose the battle over calling witnesses. Of course, the White House will publicly maintain its opposition to witnesses -- if only to make sure that the political cost of a drawn-out, messy trial is born by the Republicans...