Word: facto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last night, in front of a group of powerful people who were not used to having their party schedules interrupted by groups of political protesters, a different strategy was needed. Confrontation was achieved de facto by the militants, and Bok's failure to order their arrest in no way limited the damage that they did to the University's reputation...
...strong curatorial case can be made for ending the story in 1918. It is too bad, however, that the MOMA show, unlike its Vienna and Paris predecessors, omits all but a bit of political context. There is scant reference, for example, to the troubling de facto alliance between the Secessionist aesthetes and Vienna's populist right against late 19th century liberalism, or to the right-wing regime that ran the city during the % Werkstatte's glory days, or to the unpleasant fact that the bank Wagner designed was established as an alternative to the "Jewish banks." By remaining ahistorical, MOMA...
...West European leaders might have felt more urgency had South Africa been sputtering out of control. But the country appeared to be relatively quiet--at least insofar as could be determined by the press, which under the de facto censorship was more or less obliged to take the Botha government's word for it. A series of minor terrorist explosions took place in Durban, Johannesburg and the Eastern Cape, and at week's end police killed four black guerrillas near the Botswana border. Wildcat strikes and worker "stayaways" continued in about 100 supermarkets and other retail stores, underscoring reports that...
Although the Administration is aware of that scenario, it contends that both sides may continue to observe what Shultz called "a de facto form of mutual restraint." Nevertheless, Reagan maintains that only a dramatic change in Soviet behavior would cause him to alter his new stand. Could a significant turnaround in Soviet policy actually be on the horizon? "We do not expect that," says a U.S. official. "Not in compliance, not in modernization, not in negotiation...
...organization expressed concern at Botha's mention of new laws, saying, "The government is going to broaden the already Draconian provisions of the Internal Security Act. The effect of this is that a de facto state of emergency will exist throughout our country...