Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spanish-speaking skipper, TIME Correspondent Richard Woodbury boarded a chartered 40-footer at Key West for a voyage to the Cuban industrial port of Mariel. Woodbury expected to complete the 220-mile round trip in 24 hours but instead spent nearly a week in Cuba-including five days under virtual house arrest in a Havana hotel. Woodbury's account of his mission to Mariel...
...some 100,000 people were using DMSO, primarily to treat sprains, bruises, minor burns and arthritis. The FDA'S concern about such widespread use of an experimental drug grew into alarm when animal studies indicated that DMSO might cause eye damage. That led to a virtual ban on clinical tests of the drug. But only a year later the restrictions were eased to permit experiments in such hard-to-treat illnesses as interstitial cystitis (a painful bladder inflammation), scleroderma (a condition characterized by thickening and hardening of the skin and sometimes internal organs as well) and rheumatoid arthritis...
...wealth have traditionally been controlled by the "settlers," the Americo-Liberians. Tolbert's father was a former South Carolina slave who became a rich coffee grower and rice, farmer in Liberia. The son, a Baptist minister, was the country's Vice President for 20 years under the virtual one-man rule of President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman. After Tubman's death in 1971, Tolbert succeeded to the presidency and to the leadership of Liberia's only political party, the True Whigs...
...road the Celtics were the biggest draw in the league. Bird finished the season ranking 16th in scoring (an average 21.3 points per game) and tenth in rebounds (10.4 per game), and he dished off an average of 4.5 assists. The 6-ft. 9-in. forward is a virtual shoo-in for Rookie of the Year honors and has been touted for the league's M.V.P. award as well. Says Auerbach: "Usually a player with his kind of hullabaloo disappoints, but Larry has more than lived up to his notices. As a player, and even more as a person...
...school system, largest single item in the city budget, provides a good example. To meet King's tax cap would entail the virtual destruction of the city's schools. Even with a 13 per cent spending increase, many supports will be removed from an already shaky system. But, as school superintendent William Lannon and Cambridge mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 have pointed out, the city is caught in a double bind. If taxes are raised too much, it may add further fuel to the tax-cutting fires and impair the city's ability to meet its citizens' needs even further...