Word: virtualization
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...President Nixon last month signed an executive order directing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to issue, by July, 40,000 such permits to industries whose effluents meet state and federal water-quality standards. As Burns sees it. the plan opens new loopholes for polluters, including several years of virtual legal immunity while applicants wait for their permits to be processed. Thus he insists that despite its good intentions, "Nixon's permit program knocks the teeth out of water-pollution enforcement throughout the country. In effect, the permits will be veritable licenses to pollute." Last week Burns...
...Eight times he has been voted best U.S. sports cartoonist and in 1954 was awarded the "Reuben" as the best of all cartoonists in the country. Later this month, the National Cartoonists Society will honor him as "Sports Cartoonist of the Century." Then Mullin will retreat to virtual retirement in Florida and do only "whatever work climbs up on my drawing board that I don't resent...
Rising paper costs and an impending quantum jump in second-class postal rates are forcing shrinkage in the size of many U.S. magazines. Such LIFE-size books as Holiday and Boys Life have already been reduced to virtual TIME size. McCall's will go to the smaller format with its February issue. Last week Esquire announced that it too would shrink, starting in September...
...virtual slave plantation in the 20th century. Cummins takes all kinds of errants and turns them into white-clad "rankers" who work or perish. Toiling from dawn to dusk, they move in a long line across the fields, supervised by a horseman in khaki and five unmounted "shotguns" (guards) who "push" the serfs along. At each corner of the field stands another guard, armed with a high-powered rifle. All the guards are convicts, the toughest at Cummins. Hated by rankers, the trusties are picked for meanness in order to keep them alive off duty. They are killers, armed robbers...
...Comin Khmere, a Danish-directed firm with assets of $50 million, has long had a monopoly on many of the goods coming into Cambodia. Severs hopes to work around them, however, with the help of the American Embassy. He says that as a virtual monopoly they have been charging exorbitant prices for years, and that he will be able to undercut them. "I can sell the same can of milk for which they've been getting 18 riels for 6 riels," he explains...