Word: virtualization
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Personality, not politics, has dominated the 1980 presidential campaign. Environmental, economic, and social issues have taken a back seat to name-calling and virtual character assassination. Jimmy Carter thinks Ronald Reagan is a warmonger and John Anderson, a spoiler. Ronald Reagan thinks Jimmy Carter is a malicious backstabber, and John Anderson, a spoiler. Anderson thinks both major parties have failed the electorate but that he can provide the "difference...
...NOTEBOOK: The team is now in a virtual must-win situation going into Tuesday's home game with arch-rival UMass. Game time is 3:30...Gately suffered a severely bruised shin with about 15 minutes to go in the game and her status for the UMass game is unknown at this time...
...Leaguers generally favor Rep. John B. Anderson (R-Ill.) over President Carter, 41 per cent to 29.3 per cent. But among Harvard students, the race is a virtual toss-up with Anderson ahead 40 per cent to 35.7 per cent, a statistically insignificant difference...
...their details. "One should notice and fondle details," he says. "There is nothing wrong about the moonshine of generalization when it comes after the sunny trifles of the book have been lovingly collected." The bulk of these lectures consists of rapt, minute scrutiny of such trifles. Nabokov does a virtual time-and-motion study of the daylong "dance of fate" between Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Joyce's Ulysses. He reads volumes into Flaubert's use of the word and in Madame Bovary. Under his microscope, the "flushed prism" of Proust's style reveals a particular...
DIED. Pearl Luella Kendrick, 90, microbiologist who in 1939 helped develop a vaccine that led to the virtual eradication of whooping cough, long a childhood scourge; of cancer; in Grand Rapids, Mich. Kendrick also developed the standard DPT shot, which provides combined protection against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus...