Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe lights finish second in the Eastern Sprints in New Preston, Conn., to a powerful Boston University crew, a virtual repeat of the two crews' race earlier in the season...
...sweetest deals. For 40 years cane and beet growers were shielded by import quotas that not only helped keep domestic prices at twice the world level, but also fostered corruption and bribery and made Congressmen like the late Harold Cooley, Democratic chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, virtual Secretaries of State for Sugar...
...Guidelines. Executives have been warily watching the Administration carry on a virtual witch hunt to find and name violators of the anti-inflation price guidelines. Staff members of the Council on Wage and Price Stability have said for weeks that they have been under orders to find someone-anyone-who is breaking the guidelines. Notes Jack Carlson, chief economist of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "The wage and price control program has been a failure, and they're looking for someone to blame...
...words came in the customary papal message to priests upon their Holy Thursday renewal of vows, but to Vatican watchers the occasion was anything but routine. Along with the 8,000-word statement on the priesthood, two chapters of which were a virtual mini-encyclical on celibacy, John Paul issued a 1,600-word letter to the world's bishops, exhorting them to make certain that priests follow his teachings. Only the Vatican has the power to release a priest from his vows. During John Paul's half year as Pope, the Vatican has received more than...
...lawyer explained, "if people disappear, their bodies never usually reappear in an identifiable way." Whoever killed him, Lestrem is a victim of what Argentina's military leaders have called "the dirty war" between the government and guerrillas, who by 1976 had reduced the country to virtual anarchy...