Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mood was tense and bitter as Taiwan struggled to come to terms with America's virtual abandonment of its onetime ally. President Chiang Ching-kuo, 68, had only a few hours' warning of the move from U.S. Ambassador Leonard Unger, who was himself startled by it. Chiang lost no time in calling an emergency Cabinet meeting, putting all military units on alert and issuing an angry statement. Carter's decision, he said, "has not only seriously damaged the rights and interests of the government and people of the Republic of China but has also tremendous adverse impact...
Small, black and physically unimpressive, Ellelloū can roam his parched land in virtual anonymity, at least when he leaves his silver Mercedes. He is essentially and purposely a faceless character, an ineffectual ruler who cannot symbolize the absolute authority of the old king and does not have the pragmatic instincts of his successors. "Our President," says one, "rules by mystical dissociation of sensibility...
Time and time again, Harvard's golden opportunities failed to bring results, and the Crimson power play degenerated into virtual non-existence in the latter part of the game. Brilliant goaltending from Crimson freshman Wade Lau and his Brown counterpart, Mark Holden, kept the score low as Harvard outshot Brown...
...Soviet standards, the career of new Politburo Member Konstantin Chernenko, 67, has zoomed upward meteorically. A husky, silver-haired bureaucrat, Chernenko has for years served in effect as Brezhnev's chief of staff and virtual alter ego. He is a member of the so-called Moldavian Clan, the group of Soviet apparatchiks who hitched their careers to Brezhnev's when he served as first secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party in the early '50s. Chernenko headed the Moldavian party's propaganda department. After Brezhnev succeeded Nikita Khrushchev as party chief in 1964, his protege first became...
Barnes, an administrative law judge for the Federal Trade Commission, last week ruled that the American Medical Association's code of ethics illegally restrains competition among doctors by preventing them from advertising. That policy, said the judge, has resulted in virtual price fixing, deprived consumers of the information they need in selecting a doctor and "stifled the rise of almost every type of health care delivery that could potentially pose a threat to the income of fee-for-service physicians in private practice...