Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regularly through their catalogues, there is a tendency to dismiss whole areas of human endeavor, like Soil Mechanics and Urdu, which appear to the untrained eye irrelevant. Yet a careful reading of the catalogue brings scholastic joy to a small, notoriously uncommunicative group of undergraduates who have effected a virtual monopoly over the University's more exotic, which is to say more enjoyable, selections. Opposing monopoly, we bring this list forthwith to the learning public...
...battlefield but had also seized the political initiative with the successful series of elections last year that culminated in the installation of Nguyen Van Thieu as civilian President under a new constitution. Increasingly, the bulk of the war was being fought on South Viet Nam's peripheries, leaving a virtual vacuum in the countryside that allied pacification efforts were moving to fill. A dramatic demonstration of Communist power and prowess was required. To Giap, the countryside general offensive seemed tailormade for the task...
...minute speech, he repeatedly charged the Curry administration with manipulating bids on City contracts, bending zoning ordinances, and selling City land at low rates to friends of the administration. But, Hayes said, Curry was "not the man we were looking for." He referred to "another man . . . a virtual dictator that has demonstrated he is coming back to power...
Hayes refered to "one councillor" who had been a "virtual dictator" of Cambridge during the term of DeGuglielmo's predecessor, former City Manager John J. Curry '19. Charging the unnamed councillor with "fronting" for a construction firm, Hayes claimed that he had evidence with which to begin legal proceedings...
...that II-S should not be used to avoid military service entirely. Deferring medical students would not do this, as doctors are subject to a special draft which eventually takes more than half of them. But deferring the students in the fields on the Committee's list would mean virtual draft exemptions for nearly half this country's graduate students. This would be an unacceptable situation to both draft and government officials...