Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conference in Ghana in January. He claimed that Gowon agreed to a loose confederation of states for Nigeria, promised aid for 160 refugees and made other concessions that he later reneged on. Gowon later offered a compromise: he said he would give all state governors, including Ojukwu, virtual veto over his policies, but he refused to relinquish certain powers, including the power to take over states "in emergencies." When the deadline passed with no further concessions, Ojukwu hit where it hurt most: at Nigeria's treasury. He announced that all taxes formerly collected in his state by the central...
...weren't enough to tear around Paris as the virtual director of Designer Pierre Cardin's fashion house while maintaining her reputation as the town's most dazzling hostess, Nicole Alphand, 49, is now hard at work becoming a lady of letters. Like practically everyone else who knew the Kennedys, she is writing a book. Actually, says Nicole, the tome will be more than a Kennedy reminiscence; it will record all the eight years she and her husband Hervé spent brightening up Washington's social scene when he was the French ambassador there. Now that...
...feet of Christ, and you go on from there. All the striving and fear and anxiety goes. This seems to me a rediscovery of the sheer wonder of God's grace." Recent Luther research has emphasized the strong streak of secularity in his thought, which amounts to a virtual command for the Christian to live his faith in action. Traditionally, Luther's doctrine of "the two kingdoms" has been taken to imply that Christians hould not interfere in the affairs of state. But Union Theological Seminary's Pauck points out that Luther, in his tract On Civil...
...such traditional mortgage sources as Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and Minneapolis-based Investors Diversified Services will pick up another 75% to create a 90% loan. The arrangement is called "piggyback" financing because it avoids risky second mortgages, involves a single joint loan on each house. Brewer calls it "a virtual partnership" between lenders and manufacturers "to assure a continuous flow of money to buyers at rates and down payments they can afford...
...today's America, where television, movies and magazines bring the latest visual effects to the remotest community, naive vision has become a virtual impossibility. Even children, by the ages of nine and ten, begin to copy the exaggerated perspective and anatomical cliches they see in comic strips...