Word: virtualization
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...Cordoba University in Argentina, rioting students refused to obey the school's administrators and demanded a voice in running things. They asked for relaxed entrance requirements, looser attendance rules, the virtual elimination of tuition. To eliminate narrow-minded professors who preached the dogma of the oligarchs, they also called for review of professorial qualifications...
...principal purpose is to bring fertility back to desolate Khuzistan province, an area the size of Michigan in southwest Iran, near the Persian Gulf.Twenty-five centuries ago. Khuzistan was the fabled fertile granary of the ancient Persian empire. But the region has since eroded into a virtual wasteland; the last major reclamation attempt was a system of irrigation canals dug by King Shapur II in 300 A.D. The new dam will water 360.000 acres, and provide electricity even for the province's remotest villages and five cities, including the oil-refining center of Abadan. opening the way for industrialization...
Both of these schools are virtual symbols of the "bigtime commercially successful sport" objected to by the Committee. Along similar lines, Harvard's track team just finished competing against powerful Villanova in the IC4A Championships last Saturday. The Wildcats are well known for their emphasis upon fine track and field squads...
...other Europeans railed against Charles de Gaulle's vision of a French-led Europe, many Frenchmen last week were uneasily contemplating De Gaulle's influence on their own society. Since the November election turned the National Assembly into a virtual annexe of the Elysée Palace, De Gaulle has ruled with little parliamentary criticism and with only muted rumblings from France's once rambunctious press...
When Jordan Olivar suddenly resigned as Yale's head football coach last January, New Haven just as suddenly lost the services of its most successful pigskin mentor in modern history with no replacement in sight. Yesterday afternoon, a Yalie screening committee picked a virtual unknown, John Pont, from more than 100 applicants to succeed Olivar and lead the Bulldogs for the next three years...