Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...glittering production of Verdi's La Traviata, the Evanston, Ill., company was regarded as something of a musical mystery. Its general manager and financial "angel," Stephen Griffeth, had been able to conjure up a first-season budget of $400,000, a stunning amount for a group of virtual unknowns. Its star soprano was Griffeth's wife, Myra Cordell, a Northwestern University voice graduate. The music director was a former security guard who had conducted a children's choir in West Germany. Even Griffeth, a $369-a-week credit manager for a Chicago company, seemed miscast...
...month campaign, the ruling military commission headed by Paolo Muwanga gave Obote's well-endowed party every advantage over its impoverished rival, the Catholic-dominated Democratic Party. Droves of government Land-Rovers distributed Obote's red, black and blue campaign posters. Government-controlled newspapers gave Obote a virtual monopoly on coverage. Concluded a spokesman for the Commonwealth observer team: "The whole thing stinks...
...nine months, the sputtering civil war in the Central African nation of Chad had been conducted with little enthusiasm. The two brigade-size guerrilla groups-one led by President Goukouni Oueddei, the other by insurgent Defense Minister Hissène Habré-had reached a virtual stalemate in their listless battle for control of the impoverished, landlocked country of 4.5 million. Fighting mainly over the capital of N'Djamena on the Chari River, the two miniarmies regularly exchanged artillery duels, and then, just as regularly, stopped shooting for lunch, tea and dinner breaks...
...thirsting nations of the Third World, the skyrocketing price of petroleum has threatened the virtual bankruptcy of whole economies, destabilized political systems, and even toppled governments. At one extreme, the social unrest that led to this year's military coup in Turkey was fueled, to a considerable extent, by the inability of that nation to maintain normal economic growth in the face of ever higher prices for imported oil. The Iranian revolution, on the other, was spurred by precisely the opposite problem: a far too rapid, and socially disruptive, industrial development that was made possible by inflated oil prices...
Development of nuclear power has come to a virtual standstill in the U.S., even though energy analysts are generally convinced that the broader use of atomic energy is inevitable. New technologies to harness solar, wind and geothermal energy are not expected to be commercially significant for at least another 20 years. A National Academy of Sciences study this year concluded that, without some more nuclear power in the next few decades, the U.S. will come to rely too heavily on coal, causing possible irreversible damage to the world's environment. Concludes George W. Cunningham, an Assistant Secretary of Energy...