Word: virtualization
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...year, front-runner George Romney's inability to generate a campaign forced his withdrawal from the race, and put Richard Nixon too far out in front to be caught. More recently, Edmund Muskie's failure to achieve a decisive victory over George McGovern in March of 1972 proved a virtual death-blow to Muskie's chances, and propelled McGovern into position as a serious candidate...
Nixon Knew. Few members of the House have any illusions that they will be permitted to escape that momentous roll call in late spring or early summer. It is accepted as a virtual certainty that the Judiciary Committee will vote an impeachment. Indeed, House Minority Leader John Rhodes felt that he had no choice last week but to go to Nixon and flatly warn him of the worst. Says Rhodes: "I told him why it [the articles of impeachment] would be voted out. All you have to do is look at the numbers of Democrats on that committee...
...dress saw to it that Indonesian President Suharto and his guest arrived on time at the white Dutch-colonial guesthouse in the spacious compound of the President's official residence. At that point hardly anyone could foresee that for the duration of his stay, Tanaka would be a virtual prisoner within this compound, guarded by hundreds of tough commando troops and armored cars...
Indeed, Simon almost instantaneously has propelled himself into the elite circle of Administration officials -which includes Schlesinger, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Treasury Secretary George Shultz-who run vital parts of the Government as virtual baronies under a distracted monarch. Simon's predecessor as energy policy chief, John Love, complained that he could not get Nixon's attention; in five months in office, he was able to see the President alone only four or five times. Self-confident Simon took office proclaiming that he did not need to go running to the White House on every decision...
...energy crisis; the station had to close up this month because it could find no gas to sell. Wall residents are beginning to worry and wonder whether their community will go the way of nearby Quinn, which was a twin hamlet in the 1950s but has turned into a virtual ghost town because it is well removed from the highway...