Word: virtualization
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Campaigning in a parliamentary by-election, Mrs. Bandaranaike ventured into the countryside, where she had once been a virtual mother image. Now, angered by the acute textile shortage that grips the nation, villagers greeted her by appearing in plain breechcloth instead of their usual sarongs and saris. When the votes were counted last week, the government candidate ran a poor third, reducing her bitterly divided Sri Lanka Freedom Party to 77 seats in the 157-member Parliament. To stay in power, the Prime Minister-who is also her own Minister of Defense, Foreign Affairs and Information-has increasingly relied...
...docks, which has mushroomed into a sympathy walkout by more than 13,000 other white-collar workers. Warehouses bulge with millions of pounds of unsold rubber and tea. Many of the vast plantations cannot meet their weekly payrolls because they are short of cash. Foreign trade is at a virtual standstill. As the Cabinet leveled a back-to-work ultimatum at the strikers last week, Colombo buzzed with rumors that Mrs. Bandaranaike could only remain in office by declaring a state of national emergency...
...generals who had not yet been brought in on the coup, reasoned the conspirators, could be won over by Big Minh right there at the luncheon table; if they refused, they would find themselves virtual prisoners in the plotters' well-guarded headquarters...
...applied for an extension of his term. By tradition, approval should have been almost automatic. So much about high-court New York judgeships is automatic that it is a tradition around the courthouse that they all but offer a lifetime job. Election to one 14-year term carries a virtual promise of endorsement by both political parties should the judge decide to run again...
...publish books. But its distribution system had already proved useful in delivering the Paris press. And when the war ended it was inevitable that the dailies, after unsuccessfully trying to distribute on their own, should turn again to Hachette. Soon Hachette was delivering 80% of all newspapers. This virtual monopoly may have encouraged Hachette to get into newspapering on its own. Today it overshadows Paris' afternoon newspaper field, with France-Soir (circ 1,350,000), and Paris-Presse (150,000), Hachette also publishes three Paris weeklies, ranging in size from France-Dimanche...