Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hated libraries all my life. That is, until I came to Harvard and met Lamont. We hit it off from the start and it's been a virtual love affair ever since. I have discovered a niche on the fourth floor that had my name written all over it, so to speak. Every time I go to the library to study, I always seek out the same spot...
Fearing that last week's funeral would ignite further unrest, the Israeli army sealed off large parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The army also imposed curfews on 21 refugee camps, towns and cities, putting close to 300,000 Palestinians under virtual house arrest. In addition, eight more Palestinians were deported to Lebanon, bringing to 20 the number expelled since the intifadeh (uprising) began last December. Despite the precautions, which included banning most reporters from the territories, clashes between soldiers and Palestinians resulted in five Arab deaths, raising the four-month toll to at least...
...trademark signature for autograph seekers, he was a one- man show. As corporate legend has it, Disney dictated the entire narrative of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) from memory as his animators scribbled the tale onto storyboards. When Disney died in 1966, the company went into virtual suspended animation. Disney's last big hit of that era was 1969's The Love Bug, about a Volkswagen named Herbie...
...winners of the Anyone Can Host contest look painfully unsure of what they are supposed to be doing; the abrasive Mulrooney's strategy is to assault guests and audience members as if they were hecklers at a midnight show at the Improv. The program's sole advantage is a virtual absence of promotional fanfare. "It didn't seem to make sense to herald it until we were sure we had something worth heralding," says Ancier, who argues that the neophytes need time to get used to the format...
...Soviet press issued several sketchy reports on the disturbances and the demands of the Armenians, which were, after all, not directed against Soviet rule. But the limits of glasnost were soon reached. Authorities banned foreign journalists from the area and imposed a virtual news blackout. Telephone conversations with local residents, however, provided some details about the unrest...