Word: virtualization
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...move follows the recent bannings (virtual three-year house arrests) of three prominent black journalists, and the creation of a parliamentary commission to investigate the press. The latest crackdown provoked an immediate outcry. "An invitation to confrontation and disaster," said South Africa Society of Journalists President John Allen. Added Opposition Leader Dr. Fredrik Van Zyl Slabbert: "The reality of black feelings, demands, aspirations and reaction will not disappear because people cannot read about them. They will simply be communicated underground." Even the staunchly pro-National Party Die Transvaler objected...
...eyes of doctors and loved ones, Siebert, 41, is a virtual vegetable with no hope of improving. She cannot talk, does not recognize her family and has the mental age of a twelve-to 18-month-old child. This glum report is disputed by Jane Hoyt, 36, a self-styled nursing-home reformer who befriended Siebert four years ago. She says that the stricken woman can mouth the Lord's Prayer and play tic-tac-toe, and she insists that Siebert is progressing. Incensed by the August agreement, Hoyt obtained a temporary restraining order that directs St. Mary...
While former NATO commander Alexander M. Haig Jr., Reagan's strong-willed secretary of state designate, is unlikely to settle for second place in any high-level policy struggles, some observers have come to view tension between State and NSC as a virtual inevitability, and the lineups taking shape indicate that at least some difference in outlook will persist...
...before her election last year as President of the European Parliament. "European ministers know the problem full well, but they have not started to alert public opinion." The reluctance to bear such unpopular tidings is politically understandable. Among voters, the hunger for ever more social programs has become a virtual addiction. New generations of Western Europeans take for granted the benefits they have inherited-and demand more. It was easy enough for governments to comply during an era of rapid growth, when rising welfare costs were absorbed by expanding economies that each year churned out more tax revenues. No longer...
White, who was elected to a fourth term a year ago, told the audience that without substantial tax reforms, Proposition 2 1/2 would force a "virtual dismantling of local government...