Word: facto
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...clinic, has grown into a complex of buildings that includes operating rooms, a pediatric and maternity ward, a laboratory, a blood bank, an eye-care facility, a 100-bed hospital and a school. Built around a central courtyard, it feels less like a clinic and more like a de facto town-- one that treats up to 400 patients a day, educates 4,000 migrant children and even issues birth certificates and marriage licenses...
...describe a website where you could post daily scribblings, journal-style, about whatever you like--mostly critiquing and linking to other articles online that may have sparked your thinking. Unlike a big media outlet, bloggers focus their efforts on narrow topics, often rising to become de facto watchdogs and self-proclaimed experts. Blogs can be about anything: politics, sex, baseball, haiku, car repair. There are blogs about blogs...
...With the four teams that split their first two Ivy contests going head-to-head on Saturday, the league has created a de facto “losers bracket” where the victors stay alive and the vanquished start planning for next season. Princeton, which has lost its last two contests, travels to Boston to take on Harvard, which is fresh off a 24-17 rebound win over Lafayette, and Brown ventures to Ithaca, N.Y. to meet Cornell...
...torn in the heavily fortified frontline separating Indian and Pakistani forces in the Himalayan territory. The nuclear-armed neighbors have been locked in conflict over Kashmir since 1947, but on Tuesday Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf eased tensions by offering to open the Line of the Control-the de facto border-so that Kashmiris on both sides can help their relatives harmed by the quake...
Only once in four years has either side not entered the de facto Ivy Championship game with a perfect 5-0 record—Harvard was 3-2 in 2003 after an injury to then-junior quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick derailed the Crimson’s hopes of nabbing its second league crown in three years...