Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texas, 17,000 passengers were stranded at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport after three planes skidded off the icy runway. Police reported more than 100 jackknifed tractor trailers, and by midweek the city of Dallas, where the temperature dropped to 11°, had come to a virtual standstill as government offices and businesses stayed closed. "I'm a native Texan, and this weather has just bamboozled me," said Welder Bobby Labar...
Last week, in a development that could help mollify the military, the U.S. certified that Argentina had shown improvement in dealing with human rights, citing the elections and a virtual end to the "disappearances." The certification lifts an arms-sale ban that dates back to 1978. However, Alfonsin has sought to down-play the shift, noting that his plans to cut the military budget will leave no room for additional arms purchases. Britain, which had opposed certification following its war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands, reacted with restraint to the decision. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher even sent Alfonsin...
...declared the first election boycott in Jamaica's 21 years of independence. The vote, he said, would amount to "a rape of democracy." By refusing to participate in the elections, the P.N.P. has ensured that Seaga will control almost all of the Parliament's seats, resulting in virtual one-party rule...
...epidemic has turned Brazilian banks into virtual shooting galleries. Dozens of innocent bystanders have been killed in the gunplay. Authorities say that in one notorious incident, Franklin Pedro da Silva was holding up a Sāo Paulo bank when he was distracted by a crying baby. "Shut it up or I'll kill it!" he reportedly shouted, then summarily executed the eight-month-old infant and its mother with a pistol...
...virtual admission of guilt. Then the two other accused employees were tried and acquitted. That turnabout last month prompted the weekly Boston Phoenix (circ. 83,650) to attack the city's news organs, including itself; it placed special blame on the dominant daily Globe (circ. 515,000). Said Phoenix Publisher Stephen Mindich: "It is a clear example of irresponsibility, and it creates distrust among the public." Globe Editor Winship replies, "It was an important, live story. We were evenhanded then, and we are re-examining...