Word: virtualization
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Representative Sam Devine of Ohio was about to start home late one evening when the telephone rang. It was Jimmy Carter, seeking support for his veto of the public works bill. The call was a little grating to Republican Devine because the President had been making a virtual family project of unseating him in next month's elections. Carter and Rosalynn had both gone to Ohio to speak against Devine, and Miss Lillian was scheduled to campaign there too until she was diverted to attend the Pope's funeral. So Devine was noncommittal to Carter...
Nevertheless, until reserve halfback Pat Britt barreled into the endzone for a 21-12 Columbia lead with four minutes left to play, the game was a virtual standoff...
...unprecedented isolation as well as Carter's decision to call the summit is an indicator of the urgency with which the U.S. views the stalled Middle East peace process. The momentum begun ten months ago by Sadat's dramatic visit to Jerusalem had slowed to a virtual halt. To rekindle the peace initiative and avert a deterioration that could lead to war, Carter invited Begin and Sadat to Camp David. For the first time, the President said, the U.S. would become a "full partner" in seeking to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. "My hope," he added, "is that...
Washington entered the game in 1955 with the creation of the Baghdad pact, a virtual invention of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who envisioned the alliance as a Southwest Asian counterpart of NATO. The original members, in addition to Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, were Iraq and Britain; the U.S. was an associate member. Iraq was dropped after a radical leftist government came to power in 1958, and the alliance moved its headquarters from Baghdad to Ankara. The diplomats and generals who renamed the organization CENTO presumably never bothered to check the dictionary, which defines "cento" as "a patchwork...
...past elections, caught in near deadlocks, "arrangements" sometimes had to be made?for instance a "ticket" pairing a papal candidate with a Secretary of State, the virtual Prime Minister of the Vatican. According to an informed reconstruction of the 1958 conclave, just such a gentlemen's agreement was worked out. Key Cardinals approached Angelo Roncalli, the man who became Pope John XXIII, and implied that they would vote for him in return for indirect assurances that Domenico Tardini, an experienced administrator and a Curial traditionalist, would be appointed Secretary of State. Replied Roncalli: "Eminences, one could not fail to take...