Word: facto
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...implantation in the womb." That moderate definition would allow access to the morning-after pill and appeal to the middle ground in the conservative context of Ireland. But it has also upset some hardline pro-lifers, such as influential M.E.P. Dana Rosemary Scallon, who are now in a de facto "No" alliance with their pro-choice nemeses...
...weekend in Saudi Arabia. crown prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud has rounded up a few brothers, sons and friends for a royal game of lawn bowls. Wearing a Bedouin robe and an incongruous pair of striped Adidas running shoes, the de facto ruler of the world's richest oil sheikdom is ready to play. He stands up to the pitch and hurls a weighty ball down the grassy turf with impressive precision. Throughout the afternoon, he is constantly up and down from his chair, despite his considerable girth and advanced age (78). In between throws and sips...
...Where did it come from? Two weeks ago, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman reported that Saudi Arabia's de facto leader, Crown Prince Abdullah, had authorized him to make public an unprecedented offer: full normalization of relations with the Arab world if Israel withdraws to its 1967 borders. Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights in the war of June 1967, and Abdullah is advocating that the latter be handed back to Syria and the two Palestinian enclaves become a Palestinian state...
...Arafat, for his part, is under de facto house arrest by the Israelis in Ramallah. He rises each day and rides his exercise cycle. He takes calls from some of his trusties in the more than 200 besieged cantons that constitute the domain of his shrinking Palestinian Authority. He eats lunch, takes a nap, frets about feeling abandoned by the international community and the Arab regimes. And, according to recent visitors, he contemplates his death...
...deductible, co-insurance and an out-of-pocket maximum. But with medical costs skyrocketing, that system became far too costly for employers to maintain. Says Drew Altman, president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, an independent philanthropy that studies health-care issues: "The country made a de facto decision to go with a market-driven health [care] system based on competition and choice." Some folks were most interested in low cost; others wanted to see any doctor, go to any hospital or take any test they felt necessary. And some preferred something in between...