Word: virtualization
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...impeachment forces went to work on new drafts as soon as the round of general debate was concluded on Thursday night. At this critical stage, Chairman Rodino joined the group of key Democrats assembled in Counsel Zeifman's office. Among them were Flowers and Mann, who now held the virtual proxy votes of moderate Republicans. Their aim was to find precisely the right language that would placate the more liberal Democrats, hold the Southerners as well as the available Republicans, and yet be technically proficient enough to withstand the anticipated assault from the Nixon loyalists during the closing debate...
...affront to the whole of Victorian society and its stiff, sexual repression. Daisy, said one Philadelphian publisher in rejecting the long story written in 1878, was "an outrage to American girlhood." Yet, Daisy is not an outrage: She is the one alive person in the story amidst a virtual morgue of grey propriety. She's also coquettish, a flirt of the worst sort, and a damnable tease. But throughout the story one is never sure if it's not just a reaction to what is expected of her, if in America she wouldn't be the life of the party...
...Harvard center Green referred to is the Harvard Center for Law and Education, and the Detroit case is the suit currently before the Supreme Court, which, if decided in favor of the center's position, would cause a virtual revolution in elementary and secondary school education as many city school systems would be forced to bus children across city lines and into neighboring suburbs. Founded in 1969 through an OEO grant to the University, the center spends about half its time in helping to litigate class action suits, of which the Detroit case is the one with the most potentially...
...Virtual Release. Numeiry then sent the eight terrorists to Cairo, where they are now said to be in jail, awaiting transfer to another Arab country. In protest against Numeiry's move, Washington angrily withdrew its present ambassador, William Brewer, from Khartoum, citing dismay over "the virtual release of these confessed murderers." Despite Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's recent demonstration of friendship toward the U.S., the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram, which frequently prints his views, hailed Numeiry for "understanding the motives that led the Palestinians to appear before Sudanese courts...
Since the strike began, operations at the Harvard University Printing Office, where all of the striking printers are employed, have come to a virtual standstill. "There is damned little being done at the Printing Office these days," Butler said early last month...