Word: virtualization
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Safer is more the way Richard Nixon viewed it. Turning the hideaway into a virtual hideout during the Watergate era, Nixon would spend long hours in his favorite armchair next to Aspen's massive central fireplace, with legal pads on his knee, trying to explain away the crisis...
...such Western Canadian provinces as British Columbia and Alberta, the belief that the central government ignores their collective needs is virtual Holy Writ...
...country on his own? Certainly Moore's role contrasts dramatically, and disadvantageously, with that of Lawrence O'Brien, the almost legendary congressional fix-it man for John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Although also criticized for snubbing faithful party pols, O'Brien had a virtual proxy from both his bosses to bargain for votes and decide which initiatives to pursue and which to discard...
...were more inclined to agree. On few issues was that unity more convincingly displayed than the minority rights resolution that was drafted by conference organizers but later rewritten and toughened by the one-third of delegates who were black, Hispanic, Indian or Oriental. The revised version was carried with virtual unanimity by delegates who had split bitterly on other issues. Exulted Liz Carpenter, leader of ERAmerica, the group spearheading the amendment ratification drive: "We can no longer be accused of being a middle-class white women's cause." New Yorker Letty Cottin Pogrebin recalled seeing a black delegate wearing...
...should farmers necessarily be faulted for accepting the money when Congress holds it out. They can borrow as much as $250,000, to be repaid in up to 20 years at the virtual giveaway interest rate of 3%. The eligibility rules, moreover, were written so loosely that far more farmers qualify than anyone expected. Sadly concedes Democratic Congressman Robert Giaimo, whose House Budget Committee has tried in vain to keep a lid on the program's overflowing costs...