Word: virtualization
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...Grandes Ecoles continue to train their students in a severely traditional mode. Because their graduates hold a virtual monopoly on top government jobs. Crozier points out that it is "absolutely impossible to recruit any new specialists." In the future recruitment must come from a much broader spectrum of the populations...
With 22 months left before the deadline, plans for construction of what may turn out to be the only new low-cost housing to be built in Boston during the next two years are at a virtual standstill...
...virtual hermit at his Mougins retreat in southern France, Pablo Picasso was forced to emerge by a toothache. On the streets of Cannes he looked in turn pained and relieved, allowing the public one of its few glimpses of the master in almost a year...
...same report, Archbishop Helder Câmara of Olinda and Recife in northeastern Brazil recounts the "barbarous assassination" of a 28-year-old priest. "What is particularly grave about this crime," he writes, "is the virtual certainty that it was part of a premeditated series." Last week the outspoken prelate visited Pope Paul in Rome to tell him personally about the "spiral of violence" in his country...
According to one woman faculty member, "the virtual exclusion of women from University positions deprives female, students, both undergraduate and graduate, of role models. Graduate women, indeed, are being trained professionally in an institution that barely recognizes members of their sex as professionals...