Word: facto
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...take advantage of this unprecedented financial security, Rudenstine built a cohesive administrative structure out of the old parochial system. By using the deans of the nine faculties as a de facto cabinet to deliberate over University-wide issues, Rudenstine centralized and coordinated many diverse and competing interests. This successful strategy provided him not only with a group on which he could rely for advice, but also with a seedbed for his interfaculty initiatives, through which faculties of different schools are able to collaborate their research in a given area. The initiatives, of which there are now 10, include such notable...
...like him so much that they have been urging the maverick to switch sides. Though McCain has declined, he thought about it long enough to prompt a dinner invitation from the President last week. The shift in power only enhances his stature. "This move makes John McCain the de facto Republican leader in the Senate," says a top Republican operative...
...militia claims as part of Lebanon but the United Nations recognizes as part of the Syrian Golan Heights occupied by Israel. Hizballah also claims it is fighting on to press for the release of Lebanese and Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. But the fact that Syria is the de facto military power in Lebanon and sets the rules within which Lebanese groups operate, Hizballah's continued campaign has been widely interpreted as an expression by proxy of Syria's desire to maintain pressure on Israel's northern flank in pursuit of its goal of reclaiming the Golan Heights...
...country, two systems"?is not so much unpalatable as non sequitur. Why, exactly, should Taiwan subsume its coolness to China's cultural bludgeon? There really isn't a good reason except some notion that one China is better than two. But in more than 50 years as a de facto state, and particularly over the past decade, Taiwan has forged a separate history and identity that call out for a President vibrant and muscular enough to put his personal stamp on this era. His predecessor, Lee Teng-hui, made enormous strides promoting Taiwan's democratic institutions and mentality, raising Taiwanese...
...pitching the Philippines as less corrupt and more stable now that she's the president. But what we?ve seen this week is that this is a very deeply polarized society, and it's going to be harder to sell it as stable when she's forced declare de facto martial law and lock up her opponents...