Word: virtualization
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...independent deterrent force would have brought down the government. In the Fifth Republic, the danger lies outside Parliament-the loss of confidence in De Gaulle himself. So far, De Gaulle's answer to opposition has been to make frequent tours of the country, presenting himself in a virtual continuous popular referendum that he has no trouble winning. But even De Gaulle has sensed discontent in the air, and politicians who accompanied him on Tour No. 12 to eastern France came away persuaded that the President will soon propose "something" to end the Algerian deadlock...
...other activities that can be better performed by lower levels of government or by private institutions or by individuals.") Goldwater goes on to denounce the graduated income tax as "immoral" ("I do not believe in punishing success.") He proposes a series of foreign policy moves that includes virtual withdrawal of support (if not membership) from the United Nations, cessation of foreign aid to all but reliable allies, encouragement and actual prosecution of military action against "vulnerable Communist regimes," and withdrawal of diplomatic recognition from all Communist states...
...same false alternatives, it is not surprising that the peace movement produced an analogue to the military dream of "preventive war." Both sides seek an escape from mounting tension: while the one has fantasies of crushing the enemy once and for all, the other resigns itself reluctantly to virtual appeasement...
...scene is London, and Nick Jenkins is still the sad Seeing-Eye dog for a troupe (if that can be imagined) of comic blind men. Stringham, a once-brilliant fellow and his close friend at school, is now under virtual house arrest as an alcoholic by his sister's former governess. Widmer-pool, a great comic creation who represents Business in Powell's mind, has soared to the skirts of Mrs. Simpson's "set." The Tolland family, whose head is Lord Warminster, illustrates the vast confusion of the British ruling class at the time. ("I haven...
...Japanese people, said the journalist, dislike the "virtual extra-territoriality" that Japan grauts for U.S. bases, plus the absence of any Japanese control over nuclear weapons stored there. As the day for ratification of the treaty grew near, millions of Japanese saw it as "not a security, but a danger treaty...