Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year after I wrote that piece, I got to read a virtual rewrite of that essay, now entitled "They Flee from Me," in a Lampoon parody of the What. To add insult to injury, a good friend of mind unwittingly complimented me for writing the Lampoon's parody, saying it was the best piece I had ever written. One freshman girl even took the parody so seriously she called me up to complain about...
...Breuning about his difficulty in getting two nurses to agree more than 80% of the time on the severity of mentally ill patients' symptoms. "What's wrong with you?" Sprague recalls one of Bruening's co-workers saying. "We get 100% agreement." That idle boast of scientific exactitude -- a virtual impossibility -- persuaded Sprague to look back through his colleague's research and then to contact the NIMH, which had funded both Breuning's and Sprague's work...
...five on university campuses and one at a public zoo. At St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, where a McDonald's outlet has replaced the coffee shop, doctors and nurses line up for burgers between rounds. The company has even developed a McDonald's small enough to fit in virtual cracks in the wall: McSnack. These tiny stands, three so far, have been installed in locations too cramped for a regular McDonald's, and offer shortened menus and limited seating...
Nobody fears urban crime more than the urban poor. In Watts and other rough neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles, residents are terrorized daily by gangs and gunfire, living in a virtual war zone where murder is the leading cause of death among young men. Since 1981 residents have twice voted for higher taxes to pay for more police officers, but each time the citywide referendum was defeated by voters in the more affluent and better-policed areas of Los Angeles...
...York Times. In his interview, Elman recalls that for years Frankfurter telephoned him almost every Sunday night at home. In some of their talks in 1952, the judge discussed the fact that several Justices feared that if they ordered immediate school integration, the result would be virtual warfare across the South. Frankfurter wanted "more than anything else" for the court to decide the case unanimously, Elman says, in order to give the decision the necessary authority...