Word: facto
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...bias extends even beyond options to requirements. All undergraduate English concentrators are required to take English 10, "Major British Writers," and a semester course in Shakespeare. The one pre-1800 literature course required of non-honors concentrators and the two required of honors concentrators focus de facto on British literature. This structure is not conducive to doing coursework in American literature--after honors concentrators take their foreign literature requirement and five semesters of tutorial, there is not enough latitude in their schedules to devote a year to the American literature survey class, English 70. The enrollment in English...
...philosophy of four equal lines, originally preached by ex-Harvard men's hockey Coach Bill Cleary, was always de jure, not de facto. Cleary liked to think that any time he sent a line of forwards out onto the ice, the trio would have the potential to score...
...what "liberty"? And how high a price for it? Bush's vague rhetoric--and his refusal to seek approval from Congress for his de facto pursuit of war--have needlessly pushed the world to the brink of catastrophe. Before blindly accepting the costs of a military assault on Kuwait (or as some suggest, Iraq), Bush should seek a negotiated solution to the crisis that involves the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from populated areas of Kuwait, and the establishment of military deterrence to further aggression...
Shamir's determination to reduce the Palestinian presence in Israel -- while preserving Israel's de facto annexation of the territories -- is likely to backfire, widening the fissure along Israel's 1967 borders. "You can't just put Palestinians into refugee camps with no money and no work," says left- wing Knesset member Shulamit Aloni. "That would be hell." Eventually Shamir will have to decide whether to allow Palestinians to nurture their own economy or whether simply to send more soldiers into the territories to face the wrath of the unemployed...
...political crisis had left the community states concerned over their sovereignty. During that crisis, the community had adopted a consensus form of decision making, which gave states a "de facto veto" over community policy, said Weiler...