Word: facto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...investments up to [approximately $5million] Scott had...de facto free reign to dowhat we wanted while Walter was there," the sourcesaid...
...interest rates, compelling most of the rest of Western Europe to follow at a time when governments were eager to ease credit to help their economies recover from recession. Many Europeans saw the bank's unilateral move as a warning that economic and monetary union will simply replace de facto German economic dominance with de jure economic hegemony...
...they craved: a real choice. Democratic leaders deserve some of the blame for artificially stacking too many primaries around Super Tuesday to create an early consensus. By tinkering with the rules, the Democrats fell victim yet again to the law of unintended consequences: Clinton was anointed as the de facto nominee before most Democrats were comfortable with him. Little known before the campaign began, Clinton is now being defined by Brown's sound bites, his own blunders, like golfing at a segregated country club, and the work of investigative reporters delving into the less savory aspects of his record...
Because they were afraid to set a totalitarian precedent, the courts set a tragic and wasteful one. They should have allowed Theresa Ann's parents and doctors to end her life. This decision would have implied that anencephalic infants were a special case of de facto brain death...
...other years, I've witnessed this behavior disturbingly often. A teacher makes an argument in class that can be seen as insensitive with one very debatable analysis, and suddenly she IS insensitive. A student uses a phrase that a second student considers racist; the first student is de facto a racist...