Word: facto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...From my experience...in the Asian community, [being gay] is not talked about," Joan Chang said. "Everyone is just de facto straight...
Voters had sent Foley a message in the primary. But in interviews he insisted that there was nothing unusual about this political year, that voter anger was exaggerated in news reports. Party officials were so dismayed that Tony Coelho, the de facto head of the Democratic National Committee, publicly chastised Foley by calling for him to begin running an "aggressive professional campaign." Translation: go negative against your opponent, and play up the pork...
...Asian American, doesn't the Asian American Association purport to represent my views? Am I not, implicitly and involuntarily, a de facto member...
...Port-au-Prince, Shelton has become the de facto proconsul; his 10th Mountain Division is for the moment Haiti's replacement army, civil service, utility company and public relations firm. In the countryside, 31 U.S. Army Green Beret A Teams, each made up of about 12 soldiers, have quietly fanned out to key towns and villages. They are holding town meetings in Pilate and Plaisance. Further south in Hinche, Special Forces soldiers just completed "Operation Light Switch," getting a generator up and running to restore some power. "The people are now out in the streets," said a secret report sent...
...arrival. Volunteers are working to repair the President's white, two-story residence, which police had stripped and looted even of window frames after he fled the country. In the capital, the presidential palace is also in bad shape, but no restoration work can be scheduled until the de facto president, Emile Jonassaint, is pushed out -- possibly this week. Haitians say he is booby-trapping the palace with voodoo charms to thwart Aristide...