Word: facto
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...casino in Jericho--that the accountants can only guess that they are worth anywhere from $1 billion to $10 billion. Besides making sense of the books, the Standard & Poor's team is testing them for evidence to support allegations by Palestinian merchants that the Authority controls de facto monopolies in the local flour, cement and tobacco trades. The accountants are looking closely at how the Authority awards contracts and trying to determine whether corruption in licensing, which they say has been rife, continues...
...things considered, the Crimson should be able to tame the Lions and roll to a comfortable victory. If they do, and Penn wins at Princeton, the stage will be set for Battle for the Ivies II—a rematch of 2001’s de facto Ivy championship game—next Saturday in Philadelphia...
Despite these flaws, serious and unfortunate as they are, 8 Mile’s overall message about identity and tolerance is surprisingly fresh. This hardly redeems the film, but at a time when de facto segregation is protocol on MTV and in Hollywood, 8 Mile nevertheless serves as a provocative critique...
...evidence is all around us. China's surprising cooperation with the U.S. after Sept. 11. Beijing's muted response despite the Bush Administration's de facto upgrading of relations with Taiwan. An equally taciturn response to Japan dispatching naval forces to the Arabian Gulf, an expansion of Tokyo's reach that normally would spark loud complaints from Beijing about Japan's resurgent militarism. And in the U.N. Security Council, a China that says not no but nothing, signaling its quiet acquiescence even as France and Russia actively slow a U.S.-sponsored resolution on Iraq...
Lewis also said the elimination of the Rank List Groups makes sense in light of last year’s changes, which changed the grading scale from a 15-point scale to a 4.0 scale starting next fall, since they have “de facto disappeared...