Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worth of common electronic components they constructed a device capable of reproducing tones of the 12 frequencies which are used to control automatic telephone equipment, giving them a virtual duplicate of a telephone operators console...
There has been a strongly favorable response to the petition asking an advisory referendum on Harvard's policy toward grades and the draft. This response constitutes a virtual mandate to hold the referendum. The questions remaining are "when...
...message came from Sir Humphrey Gibbs, who for five months has lived in virtual isolation as the British Governor of rebel Rhodesia. It was directed to Harold Wilson, and its contents were secret, but it sent Wilson's personal envoy Oliver Wright flying into Salisbury for talks with Prime Minister Ian Smith. What were the talks all about? "To see whether a basis for negotiations genuinely exists" was all that Wilson would tell the British Parliament last week, and Smith was equally evasive. "We are always prepared to take part in constructive discussions with anybody," he announced in Salisbury...
...very painful," Callas insisted after she signed the necessary papers, even though "the Americans never really considered me an American." But then she admitted: "Freedom is so nice." It is indeed. It means virtual divorce from U.S. income taxes as well as from Meneghini. As an American citizen living abroad, Callas had to pay on all her earnings over $25,000, a considerable amount. As a Greek, she has to pay U.S. taxes only on what she earns...
...most distant objects ever observed (TIME cover, March 11). But challengers remain, and they have by no means given up. Schmidt's colleague, Halton Arp of the Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories, for example, believes that quasars were ejected from odd-looking galaxies that are, by cosmological standards, virtual neighbors to the earth...