Word: virtually
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Bosch will be kept under virtual house arrest while the State Department tries to find a country to which to ship him. But he seems undaunted by the restrictions. Although he must log all visitors and wear an electronic anklet, Bosch vows that he will "speak to anybody I want to" during the three hours a day he is free to walk the streets of Miami's Little Havana...
...Italians are thoroughly -- very thoroughly -- served by their bankers: the country has some 1,200 separate banking companies with 13,500 branches -- but it also has one of the Continent's highest savings rates. The mostly government-controlled network employs 310,000 people, many of them holding down virtual sinecures...
...according to the Department of Commerce, consumer spending growth was flat. At the same time, consumer debt rose at an annual rate of only 3%, down from 7.6% in 1989 and 8.5% in 1988. Edward Hyman, chief economist at C.J. Lawrence, Morgan Granfel, a Manhattan brokerage firm, predicts a virtual standstill in consumer borrowing for the next 12 months, a phenomenon not seen since the 1950s. At the same time, socking away money is regaining popularity. In April the personal savings rate topped 6% for the first time in more than five years...
Twenty years ago, Nikita Khrushchev, a nonperson living under virtual house arrest in a dacha outside Moscow, created an international sensation when the first volume of his memoirs was published by Little, Brown & Co. The Soviet authorities denounced Khrushchev Remembers as a CIA hoax. A number of Western experts suspected the KGB. In 1974, after Khrushchev's death, a second volume was published. By then the controversy had died down, but curiosity lingered about the author's motivation and method...
...Klansman turned Senate candidate last week led colleagues in the Louisiana house in passing bills that cut back affirmative action and grant virtual immunity to those who beat up flag burners...