Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advertisers. PepsiCo, which had a virtual monopoly on Soviet cola sales until 1984, faces competition from Coca-Cola, now sold in eleven Soviet cities. Visa cards will be issued to Soviet citizens who travel abroad later this year. Sony's products are available only in stores that require payment in hard currency...
...sports world here, running from the Harvard admissions office to the Harvard athletic department to the Harvard playing fields. Every once in a while we'd write a cute story about women's team's fans, about how a small corps of enthusiasts would show up to root in virtual isolation, game after game. And then we'd get back to business and write previews and a game story and three columns and a notebook about some men's team...
...common complaint heard in house dining halls, library carrels and expert evaluations of Harvard concerns the virtual absence of contact between faculty and students, often a result of large, impersonal lecture courses...
...recent years that utopian vision has gradually given way to a darker, more sinister image. According to accounts provided by former Colonia Dignidad residents, the colony, which now numbers about 350, has become a virtual prison camp under the control of its founder and leader, Paul Schafer, 66. A self-proclaimed psychologist, Schafer fled Germany in 1961 with his small flock after police launched an investigation into charges that he had sexually abused two boys...
...years, before he was forced to resign in February 1987, Regan was in a position to see how the First Lady's faith in the astrologer's pronouncements wreaked havoc with her husband's schedule. At times, he writes, the most powerful man on earth was a virtual prisoner in the White House...