Word: virtually
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...always prompted by such laudatory aims. Professional publicity experts have made a multibillion- dollar industry out of copping column inches and airtime for everything / from smokers' rights and rap records to haute couture and the Trump bust-up. And the White House has raised press manipulation to a virtual art form, often for the narrowest political motives. The Reagan Administration, led by the Great Persuader himself, was notorious for its spin control. Last week the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a Washington-based watchdog group, issued a report detailing nearly 100 instances of news orchestration, press restrictions...
...celebrating 15 years on the throne, Qaboos hosted a meeting of Arab rulers at the Al Bustan Palace Hotel, a marble-and-tile monument to Arabian opulence on a mountain-ringed bay near Muscat. It was a sort of coming-out party, signaling the end of Oman's virtual isolation from the outside world...
...dismal state of birth control in the U.S. was highlighted last week in a study issued by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The report states that American contraceptive research has come to a virtual halt, causing the U.S. to fall far behind other countries in developing new techniques. Methods available overseas but not in the U.S. include an injection that provides two months of protection and a skin implant that can release a contraceptive hormone into the bloodstream for up to five years...
...three times. Since the beginning of this year, however, there have been signs that the Soviet leader was stumbling in his masterly balancing act. Despite his personal mediation, Lithuanian Communists vowed to continue on their defiant course of independence from Moscow. In the Caucasus ethnic tensions exploded in a virtual civil war, forcing Moscow to send tanks into Azerbaijan in defense of Soviet power. Meanwhile, grumbling about a vacuum of leadership at the center has grown audible, as food and consumer goods dwindled and crime and corruption increased. It was all evidence for Gorbachev's conservative opponents that his brand...
Gorbachev has come under increasingly shrill attack from radicals and conservatives alike for letting the country drift into chaos and disorder. Store shelves are empty, crime is rising, virtual civil war has flared in the Caucasus, secessionist fever has infected the Baltics -- and as far as many Soviets are concerned, all that party members and parliamentarians have done is gather for mass talkathons. There have even been calls from both Gorbachev's foes and his supporters for an "iron hand" to take control. The conservative daily Sovetskaya Rossiya complained last week that the Kremlin's brand of reform has been...