Word: virtualization
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...Henry Lee's resolution for independence showed nine of the colonies in favor, two (South Carolina and Pennsylvania) opposed, New York abstaining and Delaware deadlocked. To decide such momentous business?cutting much of a continent and its 2.5 million inhabitants free from the British Empire?the Congress hoped for virtual unanimity. Anything less might poison the enterprise with disunity. Hence the delegates' anxiety on the morning of July...
...said he could not view the "spectacle" of the sales as "anything but devastating to baseball's reputation," and that if he did not have the power to prevent "a development so harmful to baseball as this," then the game's system of self-regulation was a "virtual mirage...
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi assumed power in Iran in 1953 after a coup sponsored by the CIA; since then, Iran has been run as a virtual police state, and its educational system has come under increasing control by the repressive regime. Curriculum is strictly controlled by the state, and professors who express views opposing those of the regime are tortured until they recant. The Shah is friendly with the United States, however; apparently that's all Harvard has cared about since it began its $1.5 million involvement in Iran...
...Africa's first Marxist state." All land was nationalized. The large colonial plantations, which supported more than half of the population, were organized into collective farms. But, reports one visitor, "nobody can agree on how they are to be run, so production from the land is at a virtual standstill. While the bureaucrats argue, nobody does any planting...
This year's Derby may have the smallest field in 28 years (seven or eight) and probably will be a virtual match race between Honest Pleasure and Bold Forbes. It will surely be a track tactician's delight since neither animal, by breeding or instinct, is willing to be "rated." In rough translation, the term means that if you have to run a long way, you had better run some of it slowly, or you might never get there...