Word: virtualization
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...ninth largest city in Arkansas. Just before Christmas, 25 Vietnamese men, women and children boarded an army bus and headed for Tennessee, reducing the Fort's refugee population to zero. Three other resettlement camps, through which more than 130,000 Indo-Chinese refugees passed, are also virtual ghost towns. This week, the first phase of the $500 million-plus resettlement effort officially came...
...Year's Eve in Canada, the nation will come to a virtual standstill between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. The reason: a hockey game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Central Army Sports Club from the Soviet Union. Three years after the bitter, tightly contested showdown between the Russian national team and Team Canada, a group of National Hockey League stars, the Russians are coming back for another summit on ice. This time they will be sending two teams into battle with eight different N.H.L. clubs. "It's going to be like the play-offs," says Montreal Forward...
...football from the side of the human beings who play it. "Mack Herron has struggled to survive and make the most of what America has to offer when America hasn't offered him anything to work with except his wits, courage, and guts. He has come out of a virtual wasteland, the slums of Chicago, trying desperately to survive and to overcome the myriad of things that pull 95 per cent of all the people around him down...
...Aswan last March, Bashir lined up interviews for his boss with U.S. news organizations to explain Egypt's position. Bashir was a key figure behind the extensive sightseeing tours for Henry Kissinger during his Middle East peace shuttles, tours that turned evening news programs round the world into virtual travelogues for Egypt...
...does it can often be as much of a show as what the audience finally sees. Take the time she gave Beverly Sills the bird. In Barber, Sills portrayed the young and lovely Rosina, who is being kept a virtual prisoner by her guardian, Dr. Bartolo. Caldwell first had the notion that Rosina's room should be a bird cage, complete with swing. Then to underline the metaphor, Caldwell decided that Rosina should carry a small song bird in a miniature cage. And so, one afternoon Sills found herself in a shop on New York's Madison Avenue...