Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five-day congress, members of the Soviet Writers' Union voted overwhelmingly to transform the former country house of Pasternak, who had once been a virtual non-person, into a museum. Writers also discussed the publication of Pasternak's most important novel, Doctor Zhivago, which is still banned in the Soviet Union. They apparently reached no definite ! conclusions about recommending publication...
...Herald theater critic ArthurFriedman has placed shows starring Moore and Ronisand ones directed by Ronis in his "10 Best Playsof Boston" lists for the past two years. TheBoston Globe and the Phoenix havesingled Moore and Ronis out as student talent towatch in the future. Moore, since his junior yeara virtual A.R.T. company member, in last springreceived the Jonathan Levy Award, given by theOffice for the Arts to Harvard's outstandingactor, and last month won the Louis Sudler Prizeas the oustanding artist in the senior class...
...this from a man who was a virtual unknown outside of the business community a few years ago. Ueberroth founded and built from scratch a multi-million dollar travel company, and he has achieved his success by exploiting the patriotic values of hard work and clean living. First as the Olympic organizer who made the carrying of the torch a national happening and then as the visible mover and shaker in the apple-pie job of baseball commissioner, Ueberroth has touched a chord of Americana. It is a call coinciding with the rejuvenated patriotism that is the hallmark...
...their businesses. The majority of corporate leaders, though, appear to be lining up in favor of the committee's proposal. They see it as a relatively equitable plan and, moreover, one that could help them in the long run by boosting U.S. economic efficiency and growth. The bill's virtual abolition of tax shelters, for example, could stop the flow of investment capital into ventures that deliberately lose money to create tax breaks. The Senate committee's bill "is certainly the best version we have seen thus far," observed Du Pont Chairman Edward Jefferson. Said Robert Beck, chairman...
...from his adversaries. When one opposition leader, Begum Khaleda Zia, the widow of a former President who was slain in an attempted military coup in 1981, called for an election boycott and seemed to hint that the armed forces should distance themselves from the government, Ershad slapped her under virtual house arrest. He then declared that anyone urging a boycott would go to prison for up to seven years...