Word: virtualization
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...three, Marcos Falcon Briceno of Venezuela, and Eduardo Ritter Aislan of Panama. Ritter is the man causing all the trouble. There have been four ballots since November 17, and Ritter is ahead with 10 votes to Plaza's six and Falcon's five. It is a virtual deadlock--Ritter is two short of a majority--and the OAS has given up for the moment to let tempers cool. It will try again in January...
...matched groups of 145 drivers; one group learned to drive through driver-education courses; the other had no formal driving instruction. The study showed that after two years the driving-school group had 75 accidents involving 56 persons, while the "uneducated" group had 71 accidents involving 58 people-a virtual draw. A noncontrolled study, comparing 34 drivers who had taken courses with 466 who had not, revealed that the driver-education graduates actually had an accident rate 15% higher than their untrained counterparts...
...have cut Finland's export earnings. Meanwhile despite restrictive government policies and tight credit, imports remain high and the trade gap is running at $220 million for the second consecutive year. Unemployment has gone up (2.5% of the work force), production has fallen, and investment is at a virtual standstill. Forest products-including paper and pulp-which employ over 20% of the work force and account for two-thirds of Finnish exports, are badly squeezed. Timber owners, mostly small farmers, are holding out for higher prices. Some mills closed down this year, others are working at insignificant margins...
...Emperor in 1908 at the age of two, and cried throughout the ceremony. Four years later, his overthrow by Sun Yat-sen marked the fall of the world's oldest empire. His life from then on was marked by three decades of royal fantasy, first as a virtual prisoner of the republican government in Peking's Forbidden City, later as "Emperor" of Manchuria and frail front for the Japanese occupation. Captured by the Russians in 1945, he was eventually handed over to the Chinese Communists who allowed him to spend his last years back among the gardens...
...remarkable achievement has been Coach Jim Feula's ability to develop offensive lines to adjust to the backfield. Year after year he takes virtual unknowns and makes agile guards out of them...