Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Although the meet included participants from seven area universities, the Harvard team viewed the competition as a virtual dual meet with Boston University, which had defeated the aquawomen 75-76 earlier this season to hand Harvard its first loss...
UConn's Janice Poirier barely outswam Smith in the 100 free, requiring a judge's decision to break a virtual tie, as both swimmers clocked identical 55.91 times in the hand-timed meet...
...virtual annexation of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union represents not only a strategic setback for the U.S. but a potential political liability for Jimmy Carter as well. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott examines the historical background of the crisis...
...1970s China began opening to the West after two decades of virtual isolation. At the end of the '60s, the Chinese leaders, observing America's post-Vietnam withdrawal from Asia and concurrent Soviet aggresiveness--manifested by invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, an attack on the Chinese border in 1969, and Soviet hints of taking out China's nuclear capacity--concluded that the Soviet Union now posed China's main threat. contacts with the West would be useful in reducing the dangers from the Soviets and they suddenly became receptive to diplomatic, cultural, and economic ties with other industrial powers: Western...
...himself with his bitter political rival, Noor Mohammed Taraki, leader of the more radical Khalq faction of the P.D.P., who set himself up as President. But the alliance between the two Marxists soon broke down. After only two months as Deputy Prime Minister under Taraki, Karmal was sent into virtual exile as Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. When Taraki stripped him of his citizenship and tried to call him home, Karmal refused to obey the summons. Had he returned to Kabul, Karmal almost certainly would have been executed...