Word: virtually
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...have cut Finland's export earnings. Meanwhile despite restrictive government policies and tight credit, imports remain high and the trade gap is running at $220 million for the second consecutive year. Unemployment has gone up (2.5% of the work force), production has fallen, and investment is at a virtual standstill. Forest products-including paper and pulp-which employ over 20% of the work force and account for two-thirds of Finnish exports, are badly squeezed. Timber owners, mostly small farmers, are holding out for higher prices. Some mills closed down this year, others are working at insignificant margins...
...remarkable achievement has been Coach Jim Feula's ability to develop offensive lines to adjust to the backfield. Year after year he takes virtual unknowns and makes agile guards out of them...
...season began. With a young team, it was easy for a winning attitude to develop, and Williams did not have to work any psychological miracles. When Boston went on a road trip and came back home with a 10-game winning streak, this winning attitude turned into a virtual mania...
...Hanoi, where the A.F.P. has been operating for the past 15 months, correspondents must cope with a virtual information blackout. Newsmen are not allowed to leave the capital, and every dispatch must be shown to the Foreign Ministry before it is sent. A.F.P. cables can take up to 20 hours to reach Paris, where the news agency translates and transmits them in English, Spanish, Portuguese and German as well as French. As a result U.S. announcements of bombings in North Viet Nam usually scoop A.F.P. coverage. The dispatches sometimes sound prejudiced, since they must pass Hanoi eyes, but they...
...47th Chinese Army surround the capital city of Canton, while elements of three other armies have moved in, presumably to wrest parts of the province back from anti-Mao rebels who control it. Szechwan, China's chief granary, is torn in two and in a state of virtual civil war: anti-Maoists hold Chungking, and Maoists the city of Chengtu, 150 miles to the north...