Word: virtualization
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...testing ground for fledglings. Steinhardt fitted neither pattern. He was a successful Wall Street lawyer, a heavy contributor to Democratic campaigns, whom Franklin Roosevelt first rewarded with the ministry to Sweden. No mere fat cat, hard-driving Laurence Steinhardt immersed himself in his job, soon became a virtual career ambassador in one hot spot after another...
...minute propagan da film called "Poverty in the Valley of Plenty." The camera poked into sordid one-room shacks, lingered on a leaky shower that served 25 families, studied hollow-eyed, ragged youngsters, while a commentator described a sordid way of life that added up to virtual peonage...
...Levi's grandnieces, became president in 1928 and pushed its expansion. When dude ranches became popular in the '30s, Haas introduced "Levis for Ladies." But Haas really hit the big time when Levis-and similar brass-studded blue-jeans made by many another manufacturer-became a virtual campus uniform for bobby-soxers...
...perennial president of Argentina's Sociedad de Beneficencia, a sort of community chest which supported most of the nation's hospitals, homes for the aged and orphan asylums. But when the Peróns came to power, Argentine charity became a political matter and a virtual monopoly of the First Lady. The high-born oligarcas of the Beneficencia pointedly refrained from inviting Evita to become their honorary president; Evita retaliated by virtually running them out of business...
Jenkins likes to think of the Monumenta as the first great "encyclopedia of the nation's sources ... a virtual blood bank of the vital life blood of research ... It is delivered," says he proudly, "for the everlasting service...