Word: virtualization
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Rand's plan for destroying tumors required an even more powerful magnetic field. To get it, he used an electromagnet cooled by liquid helium to near absolute zero. That produced superconductivity: the virtual disappearance of electrical resistance in the magnet. This allowed a greatly increased flow of current and boosted the strength of the magnet to 3½ times that of the best alternate magnet available...
...court judge, noting that Lorey had moved to Tombstone seven weeks before his sentence was set, decided to free him on probation-if he remained in town for the duration of his seven-year sentence. Lorey, who would like to practice in a large hospital, is adjusting to his virtual exile. Some citizens of the once brawling town at first expressed concern about having a doctor with a record of drug problems, but now the townspeople are calling him Doctor...
...March Dean was called into Nixon's office, where the President gave him two papers and asked him to sign them. One was a virtual confession that Dean alone in the White House had concealed facts in the Watergate case. The other was his resignation...
...years since Robert Lee Vesco took control of Investors Overseas Services, the Geneva-based mutual fund empire created by Bernard Cornfeld, he has gone from virtual anonymity to worldwide notoriety. Last week he was indicted in the U.S. for conspiracy and obstruction of justice in connection with an unreported $200,000 donation he made to President Nixon's re-election campaign. Vesco, 37, is also the chief target of one of the largest security-fraud suits ever brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Investigations of his activities have forced him to move his operations outside the regulatory...
Agnes Nieman's bequest gave Harvard's President and Fellows a virtual carte blanche in devising their own program to utilize the funds...