Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone in Baghdad corners people coming in from the southeastern city of Basra, wanting to know what is happening near the front. The exodus of panicky Europeans from Basra has become a virtual flood, and the anxiety there about the future is reminiscent of the feeling in Iran during the Shah's last days...
...Texas standards of macho, money and murder, it was an almost refined case. Chanslor (who is worth a mere million) contrived a poison plan that was a virtual Agatha Christie plot with its intricacies and intrigue. In the prosecution's words, his mind was "a kaleidoscope of deception...
...months, market analysts have been insisting that a convincing break on interest rates is all that investors need to begin snapping up stock at the virtual fire-sale prices that have prevailed since last winter. Thus, when easier money from the Federal Reserve allowed big commercial banks to begin cutting their prime lending rate to a flat 15% the previous Friday, brokers came to work on Monday expecting buy orders aplenty. They were not disappointed. By day's end, the widely watched Dow Jones industrial average of 30 of the nation's leading corporations had racked...
...Holy City of An Najaf after several arrests for anti-Shah activities, has never forgiven Saddam Hussein for trying to use him as a pawn in Iraqi-Iranian relations. To placate the Shah during a short-lived period of rapprochement betweeen the two countries, Saddam Hussein placed Khomeini under virtual house arrest in 1975. Three years later, as the Shah came under increasing pressure from Islamic fundamentalists operating with Khomeini's backing, Saddam agreed to expel the Ayatullah. It was then that Khomeini moved to France. Today Khomeini refers to Saddam as "the epitome of atheist filth...
...lurking beneath the placid facade were gathering tensions that threatened to bring the Israeli siege to an imminent and bloody climax. After weeks of intense haggling, negotiations to transfer some 6,000 Palestinian guerrillas encircled inside West Beirut to another Arab country came to a virtual standstill when Syria refused again to offer them sanctuary. Moreover, the Israelis charged that Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat had no intention of leaving Beirut and that he was deliberately dragging his feet in order to avoid a direct Israeli attack on his stronghold. In East Beirut, the director-general of Israel...