Word: virtualization
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While Kaplan's dialogue generally rings true, her descriptions sometimes seem labored. Most annoying is her virtual addiction to placing two adjectives in front of every noun...
...subcontinent since 1965 was that 1) Pakistan, which was Henry Kissinger's bridge to a rapprochement with China in 1971, has proved itself a good friend to Washington; 2) India, in addition to manufacturing its own arms, receives sophisticated weaponry from the Soviet Union, giving it virtual military dominance over the subcontinent; and 3) Bhutto warned Washington that Pakistan might try to develop a nuclear bomb to counter India's atomic capacity if the U.S. did not assist it in acquiring more up-to-date weapons...
...their own bosses," as Marquand points out. Some want to take meals with people by choice rather than by chance. Some are just plain tired of leading the boarder's life. And some want to be a part of the "real world" rather than live in a virtual ghetto of students...
People involved with the theater at Harvard reject--or ignore--original work all the time. Yet ask them why and you find yourself up against a virtual stonewall. But it is a wall of mismanagement and lack of perspective rather than a conscious effort to prevent original productions on principle, LaZebnik who has been through it all, claims that the problem is not really financial. "The main obstacle is the people here," he says, For even when he had a show. Teeth. that everyone agreed beforehand could not fail to make a considerable profit, he was ultimately forced to pull...
Ford has also shown progress in White House management and leadership, though he has still not made a total transition from Capitol Hill to the White House. In the beginning there was virtual anarchy. Ford did not rule, and neither did anybody else. White House staffers wandered into the Oval Office pretty much as they pleased and so did innumerable outsiders paying courtesy calls. The President was determined not to repeat the mistake of his predecessor and isolate himself from the outside world. He gave a warm welcome to practically anybody and ushered in a short-lived era of good...