Word: statement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boyer's statement was a fabrication of his publicist, Holmes' a pure fabrication and Rogers an inaccuracy (What the comedian actually said, according to George and Boller, was, "I joked about every prominent man in my lifetime, but I never met one I didn't like...
This misquote, the authors, say, is the fault of a reporter at the Baltimore Catholic Review, who confused the senator's statement that he did not understand why Harvard students were attracted to Keynsian economics and a later mention of the "value of college fraternities." The reporter apparently mistook the word "Keynsian" for "communism...
...crew was evacuating "all people from theisland who fear for their safety," the Coast Guardsaid in a statement. A cargo ship was ready tosupplement the evacuation if needed...
ANYONE who was alive and breathing at Harvard last year must have been surprised to read the Undergraduate Council's self-promotional statement in Monday's Crimson. In a paid, full-page appeal for candidates to run in the upcoming council elections, the council bragged about a long litany of accomplishments, including sponsoring "two well-attended concerts," and "[saving] senior hourlies from an attempt to eliminate them...
Reality: This statement is roughly akin to saying "I wrote a letter to the local paper supporting the right to burn the flag, and what do you know, the Supreme Court did exactly what I asked...