Word: facto
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...researcher-writer for Let’s Go. He doubted he would get the call that his friends had been receiving all week. In response to the suggestion that he might be an alternate, he doesn’t mince words. “Being an alternate is de facto rejection.” The next morning, he received an e-mail from Let’s Go. As he predicted, he had been rejected...
...orbit," says McKinnon. "Karen is a constant compass for the President; she's true north." Other insiders say privately that Hughes did more than shape Bush's message when she was in the White House. Within a circle of advisers dominated by conservatives, Hughes ended up the de facto moderate on domestic policy. She was the guardian of Bush's "compassionate conservative" image and was constantly pushing to have the President focus and speak out on issues like health care and education. She pestered him so often about the environment that Bush dubbed her a "lima green bean." His other...
...Korea constitution that is in its ninth version. And yet many Koreans and foreign observers had hoped the demons that possessed the South Korean body politic were finally exorcised back in 1987, when the country held its first open and competitive presidential election?heralding a transition from de facto military rule to a framework of constitutional democracy...
...elect a President to a four-year term this weekend, and the outcome, security experts say, could have a profound effect on U.S. relations with China. Beijing considers Taiwan a renegade province but has in recent years been content with a murky status quo--one that permits de facto independence for Taiwan so long as it doesn't formally separate from China. But incumbent President Chen Shui-bian is thought to support formal independence. Four years ago, the former human-rights lawyer beat a divided opposition to take the presidency, but he has not enjoyed the degree of political support...
...Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the most influential spiritual leader among Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority. Sistani managed to scrap two U.S. transition plans and has now made clear that he wants the interim constitution signed last Monday amended before it takes effect on June 30, to eliminate the de facto veto power it grants the Kurdish minority over a permanent constitution. Sistani did, however, advise his supporters on the Iraqi Governing Council to sign the document, because failure to do so would have provoked a crisis that could delay the July 1 hand-over of power...