Word: factually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR was a bumper year for the Ministry of Truth as well as for the Ministry of Peace. Even more jarring than the flagrant and continued lying on factual matters--and the continual media acceptance of same--was the redoubled effort to drown the citizen in a sea of rhetorical democracies and freedoms, whose real counterparts are not found to be present on closer examination...
...found they had something in common: a son trying to make it in professional ballet. "Nancy Reagan became a frequent and helpful source," Barrett says. "Though she is sensitive to criticism, she is also able to take negative comments in stride, more or less, provided that the observations are factual. When I reported in 1980 that she tended to carry a grudge, she laughingly complained, then joked that she would remember that sentence for only a few years. She has a sense of humor as well as a sense of politics...
Michael W. Hirschorn attempts to present a credible analysis of the motives of those Harvard students who support President Reagan. Mr. Hirschorn, however, makes some gross misinterpretations of the Reagan supporters whom he considers too unwise to even rationalize their position with factual argument. He seems to think that Reagan supporters are unconcerned with the nuclear threat, the welfare of the poor, and other issues. In reach: many Reagan supporters are too exasperated by the violent. Democratic hostility which precludes explanation. The subtlety of explaining one's political position cannot be undertaken in a short exchange in which...
Despite his easy familiarity with national security and foreign affairs, the Vice President committed more factual gaffes than Ferraro. Early on in the debate he seemed so wildly overcharged in his delivery that Ferraro aides watching him on television derisively demanded that he be given a saliva test...
Federal District Judge Charles Haight's action last week did not affect that principle. But he ruled that nine of Herbert's eleven assertions of libel lacked factual basis. According to CBS, the remaining issues are minor. Said Herbert's attorney, Jonathan Lubell: "We thought many more issues should have gone to the jury. But given the state of libel law, whenever a public figure gets to face a jury, it is a victory...