Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into bomb-ravaged Baghdad -- where CNN's Peter Arnett has promised him the use of his telephone line. But in exchange for phone privileges, Arnett wants 25 gal. of gasoline. The two men calmly discuss the wisdom of carrying a carload of explosive fuel into the heart of a virtual fire storm. "It certainly gives you a sense of the danger involved," says McGowan...
...well in the state's public school system. Across Massachusetts' five campuses, classes have come to a virtual standstill as faculty and students wage a "No Business as Usual" campaign to protest the $79 million in cuts to public education proposed by the Weld administration...
...city. Eleven young Soviet women emigrated to Toronto in January, lured by the promise of high-priced modeling jobs. Instead they wound up working as nude table dancers at several strip clubs. The women, billed at one club as "Gorby's Girls," say they were kept as virtual prisoners in a locked apartment during the day. Eventually, a bar patron learned of the group's plight and called police. While the Soviet strippers face deportation, local citizens are offering financial help and even proposals of marriage. Immigration officials, who charged the club owners with hiring illegal workers, are investigating reports...
...that deputies in the Russian parliament would be intimidated if they had to wade through an ocean of yelling Yeltsinites. To make sure the ban was enforced, the President took police powers away from the city council and turned them over to the national Interior Ministry, which mustered a virtual army of trucks, water cannons and troops in riot gear. Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov spoke of "looming threats," and Anatoli Karpychev, deputy editor of Pravda, the party daily, charged that radicals were planning a coup. Declared he: "Preparations for the final storming of the Kremlin have already begun...
...DEREK C. BOK announced last June that he would step down as president of Harvard, the Harvard Corporation--the University's supreme and self-selecting governing body--named six of its own members, along with three alumni-elected over-seers, to a search committee. The Corporation jealously guarded its virtual monopoly of the process, shutting out some of the University's top administrators and almost all of its faculty, alienating many in the process. And the students, in the collective mind of the committee, had no right or reason to know anything whatsoever...