Word: facto
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...example, the letter said, "there is an erroneous premise holding that if a member of a minority group or a women is hired, he or she is lpeo facto 'unqualified...
...ceasefire among Vietnamese forces in the South only after a political Settlement. However, it subsequently became clear that the nature of the ceasefire was not in itself a problem providing that the parties reached agreement on a political settlement. In addition, Hanoi appeared to pave the way for de facto ceasefires in Laos and Cambodia while the Vietnamese reached agreement on the political future of the South...
...helped create the National Liberation Front in 1960. An independent-minded hardliner, Le Duan resisted pressures to run the war along either Soviet or Chinese lines, proclaiming instead the "creative nature" of the Vietnamese revolution. Western analysts consider him the first among equals in the Hanoi leadership-the de facto successor to Ho Chi Minh...
...course. Last week when Congress reconvened, it began considering new antibusing measures, including a proposed constitutional amendment. The Supreme Court last year unanimously approved busing as one tool to end segregation. This October, in a busing case from Denver, it will consider whether the informal-or so-called de facto -school segregation common outside the South is as unconstitutional as the de jure segregation explicitly established in Southern states by law. The stalled rulings in the much publicized cases of Detroit and Richmond, involving busing across county lines between city and suburb, are also now being appealed...
...even though there is no de jure racism in Angola, the situation remains one of de facto racism on nearly every level of life...