Word: facto
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...assumed an increasingly high profile, particularly in dealing with the post-earthquake cleanup operation in Armenia. Shevardnadze is also a familiar face on the evening news these days, as is Yegor Ligachev, the dour conservative who has worked at softening his brusque image since being bumped from the de facto No. 2 party slot by Gorbachev last September. Some tea-leaf readers see the increasing visibility of such officials as evidence of Gorbachev's waning clout; others see it as evidence of his strength, indicating that he feels secure enough to delegate considerable responsibility. Either way, notes a Western diplomat...
...result, more and more consumers decline the pricey waivers. In the most sweeping move so far, American Express began offering the collision coverage last week to its more than 11 million green-card holders. The American Express action, says Joseph Russo, a Hertz vice president, "begins the de facto elimination of the CDW by car-rental companies...
...recaptured Kabo. Its troops burned the village to the ground. U.S. congressional staffers who visited Sudan returned convinced that the government of Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi bears at least equal responsibility for the starvation. Declared one: "The conduct of the government borders on criminal neglect and a de facto policy of exterminating the southerners...
Bush generated further friction as he assembled his governing team. Just as the capital anointed James Baker as de facto deputy President, Bush broke away from his old friend and campaign manager. Against Baker's advice, he passed over his current lieutenant, Craig Fuller, 37, for the job of White House chief of staff and turned to an outsider, New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, 49. Fuller, who had served Bush for four years, responded by quitting...
Some observers think that Ramos, who this week becomes by Executive Order a de facto deputy commander of the armed forces, second in power only to Aquino, harbors his own ambitions for the presidential election scheduled for 1992. A recent poll gives him the highest approval rating of all officials in the country; he outpolled Aquino 79% to 73%. Amid rumors that Cory wants to kick him upstairs, might Ramos abandon her sinking ship of state first? "No," he said. Pause. Smile. "But then, I am a very good swimmer...