Word: facto
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...most prominent and exposed of these is the city of Jerusalem. In January, Israel's Chief Rabbi Yisrael Lau asserted that John Paul's visit to the Western Wall would constitute "de facto recognition...of a united Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty." The Vatican supports no such thing. Weeks later, it signed an agreement with the P.L.O., whose preamble stated that unilateral actions by any party in Jerusalem are "morally and legally unacceptable." The Israelis were furious, but the trip was kept on track...
...Harvard's dean believes the primary mission of his school is and ought to be its de facto mission--producing associate fodder for the big firms," Gordon says. "Yale's dean believes strongly that this is too narrow a conception of our school's mission and that we ought to be helping students find diverse careers. These beliefs influence the cultures of the places...
Similarly nebulous limits of expression at Brown University raised concerns that such guidelines could act as a de facto speech code after the expulsion of an undergraduate in 1991 for offenses that included shouting racial epithets...