Word: virtualization
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Even economists are up in arms. Since rabbit meat is a staple food in France and one of the items used to calculate the cost of living, its virtual disappearance might justify demands for higher wages, with strikes to enforce the demands. Already newspapers were calling the disease a national calamity. Said the Paris-Presse : "Myxomatosis not only menaces our rabbits; it also menaces our living-cost index." The Communists, of course, were blaming the whole thing on "les Ricains" (Americans...
...wife and child were no longer allowed out. Two of the three other correspondents in Moscow who work for the U.S. press had married Russians and were in the same fix. Despite repeated requests for exit visas for their wives and children, they were always turned down, became virtual prisoners inside Russia's borders...
...service secretaries under the classification "secret." Wilson's reaction was to order and enforce a long-needed tightening of Defense Department security. Circulation of documents was greatly restricted, public demonstrations of new weapons was stopped, and the expensive public information divisions of the individual services faced virtual abolition (they are now operating under a reprieve). Some Pentagon reporters, finding their news sources drying up and the usual flood of publicity handouts dwindling to a trickle, joined the battle by writing that an Iron Curtain had been dropped over the Defense Department...
Councillors W. Donnison Swan '16 and Edward A. Crane '35 and Mayor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 defended the Corporation's decision, and the matter was referred to the committee on finance--a virtual shelving--by a five to four vote...
Culture & Blood Baths. In the 10,000 square miles of Telingana, 8,000,000 peasants had long suffered the worst land tyranny in India. They were virtual serfs, without hope of getting land of their own. Communist guerrillas moved in to correct this-in their own way. They killed or put to flight scores of landowners, distributed the land, seized whole villages and set up their own schools. In battles between guerrillas and state constables backed by government troops, 3,000 people were killed and 35,000 Reds jailed. Both landowners and farmers were caught in the murderous crossfire...