Word: virtualization
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EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Aug. 18-Sept. 7) this year explores the compositions of Franz Schubert and Benjamin Britten. A concert version of Schubert's rarely heard opera, Alfonso und Estrella, is scheduled for Sept. 7, following a virtual Who's Who among artists, orchestras and opera companies in a generally classics-oriented program...
...Exchange of North America (ARENA) in order to locate a likely girl. She proved to be in Wilmington, 390 miles away. By viewing the video tape, the Garretts saw Amy more vividly than they could have through any number of snapshots and verbal descriptions, made the trip south with virtual certainty of success. Paget would like to see his method become a two-way proposition that allows older children up for adoption to get a videotape look at their prospective parents...
...influence since. It solidified knowledge into disciplines in which "like-minded men established machinery for remaining like-minded." It also radically shifted power to faculty committees and department chairmen. These professional scholars now decide who should be admitted to graduate schools and what should be taught there, hold virtual veto power over the selection of their colleagues and often over the choice of the president. They turn out highly homogenized Ph.D.s who in turn staff countless colleges that, instead of pursuing distinct goals, increasingly shape curriculums to get their graduates into the university grad schools...
...from Euripides. Britain "must be mad as a nation, literally mad," he went on, to continue letting in colored immigrants, who have made Britons "feel like strangers in their own country." Powell warned that passing the race-relations bill would be like "throwing a match on gunpowder," demanded a virtual end to immigration and payments of cash bonuses to immigrants willing to leave. Predicting a 250% rise in the colored population within two decades, he declared: "As I look ahead, I am filled with much foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much...
Boudin and other defense attorneys claimed that Wall's words were a virtual admission that both the indictment and the statute allegedly violated were too broad...