Word: virtualization
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David Ben-Gurion, who carries beneath the wild halo of his white hair great visions but little patience for political compromise, has ruled the country with difficulty. To satisfy the Jewish Orthodox bloc in his cabinet he accepted the virtual prohibition of civil marriages, the import of pork, the use of public buses on the Sabbath. But when the Orthodox faction demanded that education in the immigrant camps be turned over to the rabbis, Socialist "B.G." exploded, sought new elections. He hoped to win an absolute majority for his Mapai party (ideological twin of the British Labor party) which held...
Though Alice is celebrated both for its satire and as Dodgson's escape, in the guise of Lewis Carroll, from the repressions of his era and personality, Producer Bunin plays hob with the facts to picture the children's tale as a virtual allegory of the author's difficulties. To point up a tenuous parallel, he not only rigs the prologue but also changes such characters as the King of Hearts and the White Rabbit, who becomes a comic villain...
...Caiapós, on the other hand, the cabodos are sinister members of a light-skinned tribe which threatens their tropical hunting grounds and may rightfully be attacked. In this view they have a virtual ally in the powerful Indian Protective Service, a federal bureau. So considerate is the Indian Service of its wards that it has even tried to have the government forbid shooting of Indians in self-defense...
Buck's words did not long go unanswered. Since 1946-47 six things have happened to put Harvard on a virtual par with Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale in at least its physical capacity to spread its name and admissions data...
...send a government delegation, obviously intending to dicker over Iran's legal right to nationalize the oil fields. The Iranian government wanted to talk only to Anglo-Iranian company officials and only about how the company could help the Iranians take over. Mossadeq's government issued a virtual ultimatum to the British officials, asking them to help the Iranians and get ready to do it within five days...