Word: virtual
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Nader says the only way to counter what he calls Reagan's "virtual war on consumers," is to form large-scale consumer co-ops across the country for service including food, health and automotive repair. He stresses the need for strong organization to make these co-ops effective...
...rest of the planet is both appalled and puzzled by the spectacle of a superpower so politically stable and internally violent. Countries like Britain and Japan, which have low murder rates and virtual prohibitions on handguns, are astonished by the over-the-counter ease with which Americans can buy firearms...
...broadside of his own. Speaking in a televised campaign appearance, he called Giscard Moscow's "little mailman," a malicious reference to charges that the French President had conveyed word from Leonid Brezhnev last year of a phony Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. The President, he continued, had received a virtual endorsement from the Soviet newspaper Pravda for his secret meeting with Brezhnev last May. Said Mitterrand: "I understand why Pravda is content with Mr. Giscard d'Estaing. I did not wait eleven days to protest the invasion of Afghanistan." Fortunately, he added, "it is not the Russians...
Pursuing these different ends, Cyrus produces a vast narrative, a virtual travelogue of the 5th century B.C. His services to the Persian Empire involve extensive travels throughout the known world. He goes to India to secure new sup plies of iron for Darius and then to far-off Cathay (China), where he is usually treated as a slave instead of an ambassador. His peripatetic existence throws him constantly into the presence of the powerful and influential. He meets, among others, Buddha, Confucius, an ar ray of Indian mystics and holy men, Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles. He knows people who knew Pythagoras...
...their political utility. The most obvious use of nuclear weapons for political purposes consists in threatening their use in order to achieve political objectives. This type of coercion was employed during the years when the United States held a monopoly on nuclear weapons (until 1949) and then a virtual monopoly on intercontinental delivery systems (until late in the 1950s). Truman threatened to use nuclear weapons in both Iran and Korea, and Eisenhower again threatened in Korea. During the era of clear United States superiority in nuclear weapons, Kennedy was able to use their coercive effects to force show-downs...