Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Describing the collapse of ARVN in the 1975 offensive, the official Vietnamese report said, "It appears that their computers have no equations for morale factors...
...then went through the agenda, asking about new business and old business, and the Faculty were silent. A professor then read some excerpts from the task force report on concentrations. Bok asked for discussion; the Faculty were silent. Bok asked again if anyone cared to comment on the proposals. The Faculty remained silent. The grandfather clock in the corner resolutely ticked off the seconds, and the faces on the wall looked down. Bok asked one last time. There was a nervous cough from the back of the room and a teacup rattled against a saucer on someone...
Premier Giulio Andreotti made a deliberate effort to show that the government was operating as usual. He conducted meetings on the economy and distributed a promised economic policy report. This week he will receive Greek Premier Constantine Caramanlis in Rome, then travel to a Common Market summit meeting in Copenhagen. Said a Cabinet official: "The greatest danger of the kidnaping is that the normal activity of the government might be diverted. To forget the economy would be to play into the hands of the terrorists...
...Albee's bitter play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? claims that the drama is actually an imagined confrontation between Albee's natural and adoptive parents. Indeed, psychological studies show that adoptees are often obsessed by fantasies about their missing biological parents. Now a new report finds that these fanciful illusions can damage not only adoptees but also even children temporarily placed in foster homes...
Professors of Social Work David Fanshel of Columbia University and Eugene B. Shinn of Manhattan's Hunter College spent five years studying 624 foster children, many of whom had been abused, abandoned or neglected by their natural parents. In their book Children in Foster Care, Fanshel and Shinn report that youngsters who were never visited by their real parents in the foster homes showed greater emotional turmoil than those who were, as well as some declines in their IQ scores. But children who were seen at least occasionally by their real parents seemed far less troubled in their...