Word: virtual
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...After depositing Chen at home, Linyi officials kept him under virtual house arrest for more than six months. Despite the harassment, which included several beatings, Chen remained hopeful. After all, a spokesperson at the State Family Planning Commission in Beijing had admitted that Linyi officials had broken the law. Chen waited in confinement for justice to be served. He kept in contact with foreign journalists through smuggled cell phones...
...terrorist apartment bombings in Moscow and other Russian cities, then-Premier Putin pledged "to rub out the terrorists on the john." Neo-Nazis - along with many Russians who would genuinely feel insulted if they were called Nazis - interpreted this statement in the same way Belyayev did - as a virtual license to attack. I heard it from officers who fought in Chechnya often enough...
...China and South Korea reacted angrily to his visit, the sixth during Koizumi's time as Prime Minister, but the reality is that both countries have long since written off Koizumi, who leaves office in a month. Solving the intractable question of Yasukuni - and possibly ending Japan's virtual diplomatic isolation in Asia - will fall to Koizumi's likely successor, the hawkish Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe. Both China and South Korea have signaled their willingness to give Abe a chance once he takes power, to allow him to begin to repair the immense damage that Koizumi has done...
...Yasukuni left Koizumi in a political situation that Bush might recognize - what succeeds in domestic politics is wrecking the country's reputation abroad. And that leaves Abe in something of a bind. (Abe is a virtual lock to win next month's elections to lead Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, LDP, which would automatically make him Prime Minister.) If Abe visits Yasukuni after becoming Prime Minister, he could destroy Japan's best chance in years to repair relations with China and South Korea. If he decides not to go, he could be seen as kowtowing to Chinese wishes...
...Through the wall-sized windows behind his slick, black desk, Ma overlooks steel-and-glass office towers that house similar companies, including an online-music outfit and a "virtual university" where colleges from around the country have conference centers and research labs. This small enclave of white-collar knowledge workers is a model the rest of Shenzhen must rapidly emulate if it is to continue to prosper, says Ma: "In Shenzhen, we really have to move faster than before, and take the right direction." His vision?and his sense of urgency?is shared by city officials, who have launched...