Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to gather evidence for its investi gation, authorities impounded all press film from remote-controlled still cameras that had been stationed around the launch site. Several news organizations have protested the action. In ad dition, some veteran reporters of the space program were rankled at the virtual news blackout imposed by NASA after the accident...
...times the amount Corazon Aquino and Laurel have at their disposal. Marcos commands the armed forces, whose troops serve as peacekeepers, and he appoints the Commission on Elections. Most important, perhaps, the President and his supporters own all five television stations in the country, and have imposed a virtual blackout on coverage of the Aquino campaign...
...heard of nine or 10 losses in the last ten days," said Mather House Senior Tutor Terry Shaller. "It's a virtual epidemic of theft...
...likes an antisocial computer. If a machine cannot communicate with other devices, its owner can be isolated and less effective. Yet the IBM Personal Computer, which has become a desktop standard since its debut in 1981, still cannot be linked in large groups. Result: a virtual epidemic of lonely-terminal syndrome among IBM customers, who have bought nearly 3 million of PC's four current models. Growing impatient in the past year, PC users have been demanding a way to connect the machines. IBM responded in 1984 with a system for linking a few PCs, but business users clamored...
UUNDER THE TENUOUS LEGAL framework of the state of emergency, which gives the government a virtual blank check on arrest and detention, the reasons for moderate response on the part of Blacks have quickly faded. A preliminary report on the condition of South African jails released last week found that 83 percent of the 176 former prisoners in the sample reported some sort of physical torture, including beatings, forced standing, electric shock and strangulation...