Word: factually
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...theory, at least, the new technology has the power to transform the nature of the university. Much routine advising could shift to a network of personal computers linked to a common data base so that students could instantly have the answers to a host of factual questions, about course requirements, employment interviews, campus events, and homework assignments. In time, lectures could move from classrooms to television screens so that students could listen to a professor and immediately test their comprehension of the material by working through a series of questions and problems presented by an appropriate computer program. Science concentrators...
...THINK ABOUT IT, YOU'LL CHOOSE AT&T." Really? Since there is little factual reason for a consumer, especially a college student, to choose what is the most expensive telephone service. AT&T has run, a campaign based on repetition, rather than reasoning. Whether AT&T' dinner-table tactics are merely "aggressive," as Romano claims, or "bordering on predatory," in Lawrence's words, students should think carefully about then long distance, carrier and make a choice based on what saves them the most money...
Santilli's charges are far reaching--from the misconduct of individual physicists regarding his own work to general and perhaps conspiratorial activities at many institutions throughout the U.S. These charges are not made frivolously, he has amassed three volumes of correspondence, referee reports, and official documents corroborating every factual statement in his book...
Sisterhood is Global is a gold mine of statistical and factual information. It will be an invaluable reference book for anyone interested in the social status of women worldwide. Each essay is accompanied by detail after detail on the role of women in all spheres of society--female employment, wage differentials, participation in government, equal rights legislation. More than one-third of all families in the world, we learn, are now headed by women, and the statistics on the number of these families with incomes below national poverty lines lead credence to recent observations of a "feminization of poverty...
...attack on government officials) strikes at the very center of the constitutionally protected area of free expression." The court believed that without such protection, the press would feel a "chilling effect." Said Justice Brennan: "A rule compelling the critic of official conduct to guarantee the truth of all his factual assertions--and to do so on pain of libel judgments virtually unlimited in amount--leads to a comparable 'self-censorship...