Word: facto
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Again in my Aug. 11 e-mail, which I am sure you have read with deliberate scrutiny, this agreement on the table is substantively and operationally better than the agreement signed in 1996. PBHA does have de facto control of the search process for the executive, and numerous other auspicious changes have been made, ranging from changing the composition of ex-officio university board members to provisions that-allow PBHA to manage the program support staff...
...could Soros have been the culprit? It is certainly possible ? this is, after all, a man who dabbles daily in currency markets to the tune of $1 trillion. But according to TIME Business writer Sribala Subramanian, his Quantum fund merely functions like a de facto Central Bank. Like any good government banker, Soros just goes where the money is ? following the market, rather than any political motive. Perhaps the Malaysian PM should consider a refresher course in Econ...
...long, the de facto helmsman races in and out, trying out bits of his Wednesday speech. He is aware of the naysaying, that Apple, with its single-digit market share, is doomed to fall before the Goliath of Microsoft. At Macworld, he will stress instead Apple's domination of education and desktop publishing. He fiddles with a paper clip as he thinks out loud...
...video streaming and other graphics technologies that represent the likely future of Internet content." Ditto Apple's technology patents, which under the new cross-licensing agreement will go from causing endless litigation (the Mac faithful will surely consider Microsoft's undisclosed payment to Apple to settle infringement claims de facto proof that Gates knows he stole their OS) to becoming weapons for Microsoft coders to wield when the time comes...
...school. As we talk about the day's news (AIDS deaths down 19 percent nationwide due to new treatments), he tells me how the conventional wisdom these days is that the new treatments are so powerful that anyone who shows up on the wards with symptomatic AIDS is de facto a psychiatric patient, because you'd have to be insane not to take your medications regularly. This is just bad on-the-wards black humor, but behind it lies the edgier truth that the new medications must be taken with such religious scrupulosity to avoid the development of a resistant...