Word: facto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...process of becoming a huge organization. At that time there were only about 1000 members on paper, which means de facto a few hundred. Within two years it had greatly grown, largely thanks to the Vietnam...
Reinforcements and a squadron of 26 helicopters are intended by the Reagan Administration as a signal to Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, the de facto ruler Washington has been urging to step down...
...Noriega scandal is that it represents the first time that the U.S. has parted ways with one of its puppets over ideological grounds. Marcos, the Shah, Baby Doc; sure, they were all slimebags. But we didn't recommend nonsmoking, aisle seats until their expulsion was already a de facto reality...
Freshman commuters are assigned a freshman adviser and are included in study breaks and gatherings, according to Worth. "There's always a pizza party to bring all of the commuting students together," she says, and "de facto, they're usually affiliated with Pennypacker...
...came just days after U.S. grand juries in Tampa and Miami indicted Noriega for conspiring with drug dealers to ship more than 4,000 lbs. of cocaine and more than 1 million lbs. of marijuana to the U.S. through Panama. Noriega, head of the Panama Defense Forces and de facto ruler of the country since 1983, is charged with accepting more than $4.6 million in bribes, most of it from the so-called Medellin cartel of powerful narcotics lords, who are based in Colombia's second largest city...