Word: facto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spats, and the two kids are boring Bart-and- Lisa wannabes. The plots are thin (Family Dog goes to the zoo or befriends a homeless woman), and the dialogue, by sitcom veteran Dennis Klein (Buffalo Bill), is more garrulous than witty: "That was stealing, and stealing is bad . . . Ipso facto, Fido...
...more structural problems to address--like changing the way the administration thinks about diversity. This is not to say that we should never be concerned with statements that make groups of people feel unwanted. But we should realize that accusing people of insensitivity has become the community's de facto race relations policy. We use charges of insensitivity to avoid an honest discussion of difference on campus...
While it drafts tougher safety regulations for hazardous-waste incinerators, the Clinton Administration announced a de facto 18-month moratorium on the licensing of new facilities...
...exit, a policy that defines success as merely having done something without regard to the ultimate result. By all accounts, Clinton aims to "level the killing fields," to borrow the words of British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd. The Serbs, says the President, have benefited from the West's de facto intervention; the United Nations-sponsored arms embargo has had the "unintended consequence of giving the Serbs an insurmountable military advantage, which they have pressed with ruthless efficiency." Lifting the embargo under the cover of allied air support will "at least increase the right kind of violence," says Richard Bartholomew...
...more voguish Japanese peers Arata Isozaki and Tadao Ando (whose buildings are, respectively, Tokyo-by-way-of- Holl ywood lollapaloozas and ascetic Zen bunkers), but now that inequity seems moot: this week Maki was to be named the winner of the 1993 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field's de facto Nobel...