To the Editor: The article "The Nimby Effect" (Dec. 22) accurately recounted the lamentable fact that there is insufficient affordable housing throughout the county.

The sad and lamentable fact is that, unlike Le Johnny, Sir Cliff is (or at least was) known on both sides of the moat.

The pretext for the war was the lamentable fact that the Marags were cannibals.

The lamentable fact that many young black people are sorely undereducated is not in dispute.

It wasn't an accusation, merely a statement of lamentable fact.

Or is this just something we did out in the suburbs to compensate for the lamentable fact that were we raised in the suburbs?

What was not intentional was the lamentable fact that the four great Japanese carriers, deadly terrors in the early days of the war, were now without planes.

It is a lamentable fact that, in Iraq, terror, torture and murder are arbitrary and a part of daily life.

The lamentable fact is that this is another indication of the 'importance' attached to this issue.

What did it was the lamentable fact that Amsterdam was a failure, that Nice was an outright disaster, that there was a massive crisis of confidence among all Europe's peoples.