Word: facto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...October 22: at the first meeting of the CCL, considered the clubs' de facto deadline for response, Epps relays the clubs' request for more time to debate. In a joint written statement, they announce, "a substantial majority of the members of all clubs does not favor a change in policy...
...claimed the national five, six-and nine-man championships, dropping barely any games, much less matches, along the way to the feat. The women earned the Ivy title and the Howe Cup (the de facto national title) in the same year for the first time in the team's history...
...fans were arrested and fined for setting off firecrackers and hurling broken glass during a match between the National Football team and Britain's Norwich City. Just last month party officials issued instructions for maintaining order and promoting good sportsmanship at soccer matches. Deng Xiaoping, China's de facto leader, is sensitive to public rowdiness because his leftist opponents within the Communist Party are quick to criticize any signs of "bourgeois" trends in Chinese society. As Peking's Sports News sermonized on its front page last week, "Athletic events are a window on socialist spiritual civilization...
...invited to joint the CRR since 1980, as The Crimson reported on May 10. Under its ordinary procedure, the administration would have asked the House committees to send delegates in the fall. By suspending the invitation, presumably to spare itself the embarrassment of continued rebuff, the administration has de facto imposed the boycott on itself. As a result, the issues surrounding the CRR are new even to seniors...
...intensive struggle to win an independent homeland (known in Tamil as Eelam) within the northern and southeastern parts of the island has brought Sri Lanka perilously close to full-scale civil war. Today much of Sri Lanka's northern region, which is heavily populated by Tamils, is under de facto military rule, garrisoned by nearly half the 12,000-man-strong Sri Lankan army. Since the collapse of ; negotiations between the government of President J.R. Jayawardene and leading Tamil politicians last December, more than 700 people, mostly civilians, have been killed. Says Lalith Athulathmudali, Jayawardene's Minister of National Security...