Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shamir did not pursue either one. The Prime Minister is still pushing to swap 120 Palestinian guerrillas for three Israeli soldiers held by a wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization. What he would most welcome is a last-minute campaign appearance by his predecessor, Menachem Begin, who remains a virtual recluse in his Jerusalem apartment. Likud officials estimate that a TV or radio address by Begin would be worth between two and five extra seats...
...reputation as a poet, built up at roughly ten-year intervals by four spare collections of verse, he hates to give readings, lectures or TV appearances because "I don't want to go around pretending to be me." Politically he is an unabashed Thatcherite; culturally he is a virtual reactionary who maintains that modernism has "blighted all the arts." Most of his poems are sprucely rhymed and metered; yet his themes are decline, loss, things not working out. As he puts it, "Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth...
...result has been a virtual transformation of the way physics is conducted both here and elsewhere on university campuses. Universities like Harvard simply can not provide the billions of dollars necessary to conduct top-level research and are increasingly undertaking cooperative efforts to share these costs...
Interest in the drug habits of the rich and famous, of course, is now passe. The dreary repetition of reports detailing the dope usage of rock TV, and movie stars is now an established feature of modern newspapers, and moreover, society has virtually accepted wholesale the social use of many once-forbidden and shadowy substances. If that had been the focus of Woodward's book--as apologists for Belushi who have read only shallowly claim--not only would Wired have amounted to a virtual rabbit-punch, but it would have been boring to boot...
...first French civilian he had seen. Brobant had come running down the road toward the advancing troops, carrying a shovel. "It's a wonder we didn't shoot him," says Fuller. "We were told to shoot at anything that moved on that road." Brobant, who had been forced into virtual slave labor by the Germans, excitedly indicated to the American infantrymen that he had just killed three of his captors with his shovel. Now 82, Brobant at first did not recognize the U.S. soldier who had teased him about his funny hat. Fuller drew a sketch of the white...