Word: virtualization
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HOCKEY--You would expect a lot from a team that won the ECAC championship and entered the NCAA semifinals. Yet, the Crimson will be a virtual unknown quantity when the pucks start flying...
...businessmen and their employees assess their immediate future, the differences can seem vast indeed. To a corporate official looking 90 days ahead, the road appears considerably more free of barriers than it did before Aug. 15. He has a virtual guarantee of stable costs?including one of the fastest rising costs of all, labor?until mid-November and perhaps beyond. More important, he can see opportunity ahead?in an invitation to expand his operation and in the expectation of higher sales, both of which gains have already been reflected in the optimism of a rising stock market. G.M. Chairman James...
This vision of "a virtual caste system" is appalling, Herrnstein admits, because it "reminds us of aristocracies, privileged classes, unfair advantages and disadvantages of birth." But there is a difference: the new aristocracy's prerogatives would stem from genuine ability and hence, Herrnstein seems to imply, would be fair enough. In a warning, perhaps unintended, to those who might rebel, he writes that "the privileged classes of the past were probably not much superior biologically to the downtrodden, which is why revolutions had a fair chance of success." Herrnstein's implication is clear: rebellion against the new intellectual...
...some kind of deal on the war was a possible goal of the summitry in Peking. It was conceded that the war had been discussed by Henry Kissinger and Chou En-lai in their 16 hours of secret conversations. At the least, Kissinger must have outlined U.S. plans for virtual disengagement before Nixon's trip. The possibility of Nixon being welcomed to Peking at a time of fierce combat between Communist and U.S. forces would be improbable. Premier Chou last week told a group of visiting U.S. China scholars that his first concern was U.S. withdrawal...
...jubilant crowds swarmed through the narrow streets of Valletta, the walled capital of Malta, in such numbers that the black Mercedes Benz was forced to a virtual halt. Inside the car, the driver lost his temper. "Save your applause for later!" he shouted, leaning out of the window. "There is work to do, and it will be done...