Word: virtualization
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...distasteful to giver and receiver alike," said Bobby. "We have created a system of handouts, a second-rate set of social services which damages and demeans its recipients and destroys any semblance of human dignity that they have managed to retain through their adversity." Unless the U.S. achieves "a virtual revolution in the organization of our social services," he warned, "the result could be the ripping asunder of the already thin fabric of American life...
...72nd green to beat Arnold Palmer for the winner's check. Considering that Palmer, at 37 and with $87,073 already in his till this year, is playing the best golf of his career, those two defeats are all the more remarkable because they were engineered by a virtual unknown who turned to golf because he was a failure at basketball...
...pride is undoubtedly justified; few other politicians in this country can claim to have overpowered a Senate minority leader and a former vice-president. To a man confident of his vote-getting ability and elated by triumphs over two political giants, the million-vote loss to a virtual unknown last November must have been unbearably humiliating...
...conference in Ghana in January. He claimed that Gowon agreed to a loose confederation of states for Nigeria, promised aid for 160 refugees and made other concessions that he later reneged on. Gowon later offered a compromise: he said he would give all state governors, including Ojukwu, virtual veto over his policies, but he refused to relinquish certain powers, including the power to take over states "in emergencies." When the deadline passed with no further concessions, Ojukwu hit where it hurt most: at Nigeria's treasury. He announced that all taxes formerly collected in his state by the central...
...weren't enough to tear around Paris as the virtual director of Designer Pierre Cardin's fashion house while maintaining her reputation as the town's most dazzling hostess, Nicole Alphand, 49, is now hard at work becoming a lady of letters. Like practically everyone else who knew the Kennedys, she is writing a book. Actually, says Nicole, the tome will be more than a Kennedy reminiscence; it will record all the eight years she and her husband Hervé spent brightening up Washington's social scene when he was the French ambassador there. Now that...