Word: virtually
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...head in amazement. Until a few weeks ago, his chances to unseat Kerry looked promising. He had steamrolled over his opponent in the GOP primary, Dan Daly, by scooping close to $2 million out of his personal savings. And entering the general race, Rappaport appeared to be in a virtual deadlock with Kerry, according to several polls...
...fact is--and Zaleskas would know this if she had ever set foot in a single Democrats meeting--that Jamie Harmon has done nothing short of an excellent job since he became president in September. He has almost single-handedly raised the club from virtual nothingness to the strongest political voice on this campus...
...little-known postering regulations in the Handbook for Students, the College notes that "Non-recognized groups must obtain prior permission of the Office of the Dean of Students and such permission will be granted only in exceptional cases." In the the past, these rules have been ignored with virtual impunity by everyone from Wellesley sororities and futon vendors to tenants seeking sub-letters. But when members of the then-unrecognized AALARM hung up posters on College property, their flyers were torn down by College officials and members were threatened with disciplinary action for violating the poster rules, according...
Then there is Capitol Hill. The pace of modern warfare has rendered declarations of war obsolete, and the War Powers Act of 1973 has become a virtual dead letter. Every President since its passage has denounced it as an unconstitutional infringement on his powers as Commander in Chief, and the courts have refused to enforce its key provision, which requires the President within 60 days to pull U.S. forces out of any situation in which hostilities seem imminent unless the legislature votes to let them stay...
...Creative Arts, a part-time public high school for students pursuing artistic careers. During his 12 years there, the elder Marsalis turned NOCCA into a fertile breeding ground for future jazz stars. Like a Renaissance master turning out a whole school of fine painters, he trained a virtual Who's Who of the younger generation: Harry Connick Jr., Terence Blanchard, Marlon Jordan, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, saxman Donald Harrison and flutist Kent Jordan, to name a few. But the most remarkable crop of Marsalis pupils was his own sons: Branford, Wynton, trombonist Delfeayo, 25, and drummer Jason, 13. (Another son, Ellis...