Word: facto
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...educational separation and political disenfranchisement. The result was the continuation of the socio-economic subordination of African-Americans in American society. After the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the system of discrimination enforced by law was transformed into institutional forms of de facto discrimination that have continued to depress the status of black Americans. Beyond mere history, it is this continuing and on-going legacy of harm from slavery that is at the core of the case for reparations...
...threatened U.S. interests throughout the region. It quickly became clear, also, that Sharon viewed the Palestinian Authority itself as part of the "infrastructure of terror" that he planned to destroy, which would leave behind no Palestinian security arm capable of policing a cease-fire and therefore result in de facto Israeli reoccupation of the West Bank towns - an eventuality for which the Bush administration would have paid a heavy, and long-term diplomatic price. And so, a week ago, President Bush found himself forced to change course. He urged the Palestinians, once again, to end terrorism but this time...
...latest invasion, and even if it manages to survive the current Israeli onslaught, its ability to ensure order will be considerably diminished. Israel, of course, will be reluctant to leave behind a power vacuum in West Bank towns that have cradled Palestinian militancy, and that suggests a de facto reoccupation lasting a lot longer than Powell is predicting...
...Palestinian Authority welcomes the prospect of Zinni's return - and Arafat's de facto rehabilitation. But the prospect of a renewed cease-fire may present new problems for Arafat. The Palestinian leader's domestic popularity has surged amid the recent violence, which has blurred differences between various Palestinian factions. A cease-fire could cause those differences to return to the forefront...
...year-old prince, widely regarded as the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia, simply suggested that the Arab world would normalize relations with Israel if the Israelis withdrew to their 1967 borders. That was, in essence, a restatement of U.N. Resolution 242, which guided the Oslo peace process and was restated as U.S. policy by Secretary of State Powell last October. The sweetener, perhaps, was the notion of "normalization" rather than simply 242's requirements for recognition of Israel and peace. That, and also the prince's suggestion that he would use his considerable political clout to persuade the Arab...