Word: virtualization
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...News in its 1927 Board platform advocated "Support to the Harvard CRIMSON project for a reduction of the public's virtual control of college football. We favor the plan in principle, but we do not believe the program advocated by this paper is either practicable or desirable. The fact that football has become so immense and has gained such a following should be proof against the drastic punishment prescribed. In its present condition it is somewhat of a mountain, but we would not go to the other extreme and make it puny...
Successively "Reza Kahn," as he called himself, terrorized the Persian Majlis (Parliament) into accepting him as Minister of War (1921) and Premier (1923). He then became virtual Dictator and forced the Majlis to entrust him with "the office and rank of Shah." (TIME, Nov. 9, 1925.) Last week his star stood at its zenith...
...further established himself as a vigorous enforcer by sending to Congress a prepared statement promising virtual extinction of present liquor supply if the $3,000,000 additional requests by President Coolidge were granted. And he outlined plans for a border patrol of 12 000 men to keep out Canadian liquor...
...earned the title "Right Fist of the Fascist Party." He has been denounced by Cardinal Gasparri as a "vulgar demagog." None the less, Mussolini had him made a lawyer so that he might defend the slayers of Matteotti (TIME, March 22). The rude mechanic from Abruzzi secured the virtual whitewashing of his clients from an Abruzzi Fascist jury (TIME, April...
Texas. According to a Grand Dragon who left the Klan last fall, it had 97,000 members a year and a half ago, and now has less than 18,000. Several of its locals are in the hands of "supervisors", virtual receivers. Its power has fallen so rapidly that Klan support is a liability to a politician...