Word: facto
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...APPOINTED. LAL KRISHNA ADVANI, 74, India's Hindu nationalist Home Minister, as Deputy Prime Minister; in New Delhi. Widely perceived as a right-wing hard-liner, Advani remains the main strategist of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (bjp). He has long been the de facto No. 2 to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and his new designation appears to formalize his position as successor...
...baseball viewers 19 years and under has plummeted more than 66%. You can walk the streets of Tokyo for weeks without seeing a Giants hat; you'll see a Mariners logo within an hour. The recession has reduced the number of teams in Japan's Industrial League, its de facto minor league system, from 300 in the late 1980s to 90 today. There has been talk about creating an Asian league with South Korea and China to spark interest, even whispers about contraction...
...powerful voice in the councils of her Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle. But it is typical of the quantum leap his stature and influence have taken since Megawati became President a year ago that, though he is only an ordinary M.P., the President's husband is now "de facto chairman" of the party, says senior M.P. Haryanto Taslam. Controlling the largest party in the country's legislature has given Taufik the opportunity to put those loyal to him in key positions, politicians and analysts say. The perception is that people linked to him?many of them men from his hometown...
...terrorism, not just the attacks carried out by the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which is part of his Fatah organization. Their argument is that Arafat does not seriously go after terrorism's practitioners and that his rhetoric has tended to condone their actions. Since the Israelis released Arafat from de facto house arrest in the Muqata'a on May 2, his Palestinian Authority has consistently condemned attacks on Israeli civilians. But the Israelis say that despite those comments, they still see no evidence that Arafat's forces are moving against the militants...
...Israelis insist their security needs now require this de-facto reoccupation of Area A, and are openly disdainful of the Bush administration's plans to rebuild PA security structures in the hope they'll resume their Oslo-mandated function...