Word: facto
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South Carolina, where a Confederate battle flag still flies on the capitol grounds off Gervais Street and where dying but persistent de facto segregation still divides church life and civic organizations, will be a test of just how deeply the skirmish has resonated with voters. Sixty years after South Carolina governor (later Senator) Strom Thurmond created the Dixiecrats, rupturing a Democratic Party he found insufficiently racist, the state is poised to remind Americans how far they have come--or how much further they still have...
...Setting The Record Straight The Dec. 3 Briefing story on Cyclone Sidr mistakenly included a picture of Bangladesh's President, Iajuddin Ahmed, instead of the country's chief adviser to the caretaker government - or de facto Prime Minister - Fakhruddin Ahmed, pictured here...
...Briefing story on Cyclone Sidr mistakenly included a picture of Bangladesh's President, Iajuddin Ahmed,instead of the country's chief adviser to the caretaker government--or de facto Prime Minister--Fakhruddin Ahmed, pictured here...
...Leading the political charge against the NEP is a Malay, former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. In 1999, Anwar was jailed for six years on sodomy and corruption charges that human-rights activists characterized as politically motivated. Now he has emerged as de facto leader of the opposition People's Justice Party, which is campaigning to dismantle the race-based NEP and replace it with a class-based scheme that would, say, help poor Indians while preventing rich Malays from taking handouts they don't need. Anwar blames the NEP both for breeding corruption and decreasing competitiveness, since many lucrative...
...legislation strove to bring an estimated 500,000 otherwise law-abiding New Yorkers into the system and “out of the shadows.”Nativists opined that America’s borders would be dramatically less secure if undocumented immigrants were to acquire the de facto legitimacy that a license represents. But the border is already porous. Anywhere from 12 to 15 million undocumented immigrants are already here. The denial of licenses will not keep them from immigrating or even driving. If Spitzer’s policy had been implemented, terrorists would not have become more likely...