Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to one estimate, 750,000 people flocked to business and professional seminars around the U.S. last year at a cost of $350 million-up from $92 million in 1970. Organizers range from large business and professional groups to virtual one-man bands. The National Practice Institute in Minneapolis stages legal seminars for some 5,000 lawyers a year, charging about $85 per day for sessions like "The Art of Cross Examination." On the other hand, Lawrence Schwimmer of Marin County, Calif., a consultant in human resource management, takes in about $1 million a year with seminar sessions like "Women...
...Camp David session, Sadat read a list of hard-line demands that almost broke up the talks on the spot. His strategy, Quandt later concluded, "was to manufacture a crisis that would force the U.S. to step in and start offering proposals." The gambit worked: while Sadat retired to virtual seclusion in his cabin, Carter began suggesting compromise positions to both sides...
...hours that followed, as wire service, radio, newspaper and television reporters scrambled for more information in the face of a virtual news blackout in Cairo (airports closed, satellite transmissions embargoed, the government silent), a curious thing happened...
...expectant throng that gathered last week in Mexico City's Zdcalo, the vast stone plaza fronting on the presidential National Palace, included labor leaders, congressmen, bankers, politicians-a virtual cross section of Mexico's power elite...
...scene outside two Massachusetts hospitals last week has become distressingly familiar at hospitals across the nation: nurses on a picket line. At Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, a walkout by 300 nurses last weekend resulted in a virtual shutdown of the facility, with only emergency room services being provided...