Word: actuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seen as an unhealthy expression of national naivete, or as a healthy expression of a national ideal that can't always be met in practice. Even from the latter point of view, though, its practical effect is unclear. Does this hypocritical ban on killing in the national interest make actual killing harder? Or easier, by allowing us to "do that kind of thing" while preening that we really don't? I'm not sure. Removing the most surgical tool of war does make the resort to war more difficult. Given our flighty negative enthusiasms -- Gaddafi yesterday, Noriega today -- that...
...article on the October 16 editorial page said that the last day for voters to register in Cambridge was October 16. The actual deadline for registering is the morning of October...
...SCORE (Warner Bros.); PRINCE: BATMAN MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK (Warner Bros.). Two Batman albums? If this seems like Cowled Crusader overkill, be advised that these records bear absolutely no resemblance to each other: Prince's Batman is a phantasmagorical reinterpretation of the movie; Elfman's score is the film's actual symphonic underpinning...
...pesticides is not vital to the well-being of the agricultural industry. According to Arnold Professor of Science William H. Bossert '59, despite the growers' claims of substantial declines in productivity, the actual difference in yield when no chemical pesticides are used is more in the range of 10-15 percent...
...HOLLIS, but there is a larger system that HOLLIS is connected to. One of the computers in the larger system probably crashed," said one library systems employee who asked not to be identified. The actual de-bugging of the system was done at Harvard's Computing Center on 730 Cambridge...