Word: facto
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Such visible hardening has increased speculation that a military coup might be in the offing. Some Western experts and even some Soviets argue that a de facto coup has taken place. The reactionaries were shocked when radicals took control of city councils in Moscow, Leningrad and Sverdlovsk and several republics began talking of secession. Those developments apparently mobilized the army and its allies in the giant military-industrial production network. After 46 representatives of eight defense-related ministries signed an open letter last September warning that new laws threatened to destroy the defense industry, Gorbachev changed course. He dropped...
...hour-long steak-frites meals were mostly limited to baguette sandwiches on the run or the international fast food chains hardly noted for their selection of nutritional offerings. But now Cojean, with his vegetable-packed toasted sandwiches, chicken curry wraps and salmon and quinoa salads, is the de facto godfather of a near-movement. In the last few years, other like-minded, health-conscious fast food restaurants have sprouted up around town, with easy-to-pronounce, linguistically neutral names like Bioboa, Noon, Jour and the deliciously provocative Eatme. The Belgian chain Exki (motto: "natural, fresh & ready") opened their first location...
...California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger committed the state to a 25% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020; he was promptly sued by carmakers that would have to increase fuel efficiency to sell there. If California prevails, the size of its market could turn its regulations into a de facto national standard. While no other states have passed limits as strict as California's, about one-third of the U.S. population lives in areas where there are automotive-carbon limits in place or under consideration, with curbs in place in 11 states...
...there was one thing that hinted at the potential success of that strategy, it was the fevered reaction of the de facto leader of Latin America's resurgent left, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. For years, the Administration has been falling into Chavez's traps - usually by taking the bait whenever he goes into one of his intemperate anti-Bush tirades: Chavez calls Bush a "donkey," the Administration calls Chavez a menace, Chavez's poll numbers rise. But this time Chavez looked a bit like the dupe: rather than ignoring Bush's fence-mending foray, Chavez frantically crisscrossed the continent, heckling...
...imperfect scapegoats are, in many ways, an indication of the luxury feminists at Harvard enjoy: However snide and insidious is the sexism that feminists say they face, Harvard is at least forced to pay lip service to an equality of genders. Now, the challenges facing feminism are more de facto than de jure. It is fairly obvious that two-thirds of final clubs are all-male, and that those two-thirds control a great deal of money and property. But they are outside the jurisdiction of the university. There is nothing Harvard can do to compel them to behave differently...