Word: virtualization
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...social thinking of America needs to root itself in roulettes. If the experiences which The Nation's contestants have undergone were common to great numbers of college undergraduates it would not be too much to expect a virtual revolution in their political and economic creeds. A summer in a canning factory can cure for a lifetime as well impracticable economic idealism as the more common fault of a callous social conscience...
...single principle of "indirect taxation" (taxes to be paid in the form of a disagreeable little stamp every time anybody buys anything): the 3,800,000,000-franc "taxes on business transactions." Such taxation is relatively easy to enforce, and of course sure to be extremely unpopular. Hence the virtual "impossibility" of getting it voted. The Cartel measure is a much tinkered proposal. It sets out to scrap M. Doumer's unpopular "indirect taxation"; and proposes instead that great pressure be applied to the collection of the present "direct taxes"-the notoriously "uncollectable" income tax, etc. Then it turns...
...extension of virtual Dean's List privileges to all Seniors in good standing is another definite step along the liberal lines which have come to characterize the administration of discipline in the University. Harvard has always shunned the childlike disciplinary method of prescribing a fixed number of unexcused absences which a student may take with impunity, a course comparable to the doling out of a poison harmless to a certain point and fatal thereafter. In colleges where this system is followed, the records show the prevalence of the very human tendency to take the full number allowed. The Dean...
...will and is survived only by relatives more distant than first cousins. This amounts to a reversal of the laws which have forced the State to act as a trustee for intestate estates, in the interests of "lost heirs" who may be starving at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 2) The virtual abolition of the law of primogeniture, as part of a general equalization of the rights of younger sons and females on a par with eldest sons. 3) The abrogation of such quaint but archaic legal curiosities as "gavelkind," "Borough English" and "copyhold." "Grand and petty sergeantry," however, has not been tampered...
...securing the insertion into the League Covenant of Article XVIII, whereby League-Member-States are obliged to deposit all their international treaties and agreements with the League Secretariat, which is likewise obliged to make them public as soon as possible. Mr. Wilson considered the establishment of this practice a virtual death blow at "secret diplomacy...