Word: virtualization
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...Salt one midmorning last week, the townspeople paid scant heed. Though Salt is only 13 miles from King Hussein's palace in Amman, the incursion was not unusual. Jordan's air force was destroyed in last year's Six-Day War, and Israel has had the virtual freedom of Jordanian skies ever since. This time, however, the Israeli overflight was far from routine. Angered by daily raids on Israeli-occupied territory by Jordan-based Arab commandos, Israel had decided to make use of its air superiority to strike back. El Fatah, the largest and most aggressive...
...what interest him. He was one of the first to note the Republican Party's switch to a more pragmatic, less contentious brand of politics after the disaster of 1964. He was among the earliest to spot the decay of Lyndon Johnson's consensus politics and the virtual collapse of the Democratic National Committee. Rather than complain, as they might have in the case of other reporters, Democratic politicians privately thanked Broder for pointing out their delinquencies. "Seventy-five percent of covering the political beat," says Broder, "is the ability to sense when and where a situation...
Those qualities saw Czechoslovakia through an extraordinary week of showdown with the Soviet Union. With mounting pressures, including a virtual ultimatum to the Czechoslovak nation, Russia did everything that it could, short of sending tanks to halt and reverse the reform program led by Party Boss Alexander Dubček. At week's end, armed intervention was still a possibility. But under Dubček's shrewd direction, little Czechoslovakia stood up and talked back, reaffirming its commitment to a new form of democracy-cum-socialism and defiantly refusing to retreat. If Czechoslovakia gets away with it, Communism...
Like Going to the Bank. Beyond insisting on reasonable prices and courteous service, Jewel's top brass give their underlings remarkably free rein. They have divided Jewel into eleven individual "companies," each of them virtual fiefdoms whose executives receive from headquarters little more than general guidelines. "It's almost like a businessman going to his banker," says one company official. As if to emphasize their autonomy, Jewel's latest annual report contains photographs of 55 such middle-range executives-but none of either Chairman Clements or President Perkins...
...about which he is willing to jest: "My fellow prisoners seemed to me in no way morally inferior to the rest of the population, though they were on the whole slightly below the usual level of intelligence, as was shown by their having been caught." It ends with his virtual banishment from American academia during World War II, when C.C.N.Y. reneged on its commitment to him because of his reputed permissive attitudes about sex. This Russell finds no laughing matter: "The Government of New York City was virtually a satellite of the Vatican. ... A typical American witch-hunt was instituted...