Word: virtualization
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...calms his nerves, gives him something to do with his hands or solves his Freudian oral problems. "Almost any smoker can convince you and himself that he smokes for psychological reasons or that smoking does something positive for him-it's all very unlikely," says Schachter, a virtual chain smoker himself. "We smoke because we're physically addicted to nicotine. Period...
...from there, UNH took seven first places in the next eight events (only Fayer's win in the 200-yard freestyle broke their string), to turn the contest into a virtual rout...
Neruda was a poet of the people, although most North Americans only learned that when he won his long-overdue Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. By that time Neruda's poetry had become virtual proverb for most Chileans. The poet could attract 5,000 or more working people on a rainy night to hear him recite the verses of "Canto General," his paean to them, or "Spain in Our Hearts." During the Popular Unity government of Salvadore Allende, his verses were painted on thousands of walls throughout Chile. A spokesman for the left, Neruda always wrote...
...brink of disaster. Violence was openly preached, workers were exhorted not to work, students not to study and government servants to break their oath. National paralysis was propagated in the name of revolution. The government had to act and did act." She spoke on, defending once again the virtual dictatorship under which her Congress Party had quashed all political opposition, imprisoned dissidents, gagged the press and postponed general elections...
Shattered when Kennedy was killed, Sorensen stayed in virtual isolation for a year while he wrote his 758-page book on those brief years of glory, Kennedy. Then he joined a top New York law firm, which gave him a six-figure income. He lives in a Manhattan apartment with his third wife Gillian and their young daughter; he has two sons from his first marriage. In 1970 he made his one try for elective office by running in the Democratic Senate primary; badly beaten, he did not make another attempt. He was too stonefaced, it was said, to excite...