Word: facto
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...Southwest, JetBlue and AirTran, which have filed formal complaints with the DOT. They claim that such alliances give too much market power to the large carriers and could drive smaller ones out of business and hurt consumers. Says Southwest CEO Jim Parker: "This alliance is really a de facto merger that is likely to result in less competition and higher prices." Airline observers are also concerned about how the DOT is reviewing the deal. Unusually, for a case with such large implications for U.S. travelers, the department has refused to open the matter fully for public consideration...
...subtle but very effective censorship" and urged the Ukrainian parliament - which called hearings on the matter on Dec. 4 in response to complaints from journalists and media monitoring groups - to enforce guarantees of free expression. "Maybe we don't have censorship de jure, but it certainly exists de facto," says Andriy Shchevchenko, leader of the newly formed Independent Media Union. Serhiy Vasilyev, head of President Kuchma's Information Department, insisted the memos were nothing more than simple press releases. But some 500 journalists signed a manifesto in which they threatened to strike in protest against the temniki and in support...
...diaspora. Fueled by Wahhabi funds from the Persian Gulf and a radical interpretation of the Koran, Muslim preachers insist that their European congregants are living in dar al-harb, the realm of war. They seek to reshape European Muslim communities into virtual ghettos. By mirroring the de facto separatism fostered by European attitudes, radical imams have created fertile ground for the recruitment and protection of terrorists. Throughout Europe, Muslims suffer high unemployment, poor health and low literacy rates. Nowhere do they enjoy proportional representation in parliaments. With job shortages worsening, there is little prospect of opportunity trickling down to young...
...exclusive access that allows Woodward to recount such stories, however, makes us doubt the authenticity of his account. We do not know if he has truly bypassed the administration’s de facto blanket on information about the war. His privileged access to key players may have enabled him to get a story that the rest of his colleagues could not, but it also means that his story is circumscribed by what the administration chose to reveal...
...creates a kind of de facto sense that we highly value competition among individuals,” he said...