Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disagree. On the crucial question of whether France could retain its veto over "major" EEC decisions, the plan noted only that "a difference of opinion exists"-implying that the Five would lean over backwards to avoid getting involved in anything all that important. It was nothing like the virtual rewrite of the veto provision in the Treaty of Rome once threatened by Charles de Gaulle. Nevertheless, the other Five noted with relief that France's Foreign Minister Couve de Murville seemed willing to rejoin them in regular attendance at all Council meetings, starting in February...
...Left, I think, it would be worth the effort; for the radical critique of the Establishment seems to me basically a conservative appeal against the insensitivity of a professedly liberal bureaucracy. The conservative tradition of course has no monopoly on dignity and freedom, but that tradition does enjoy a virtual monopoly in intellectually defending those values against secular, plebeian governments. Proudhon and Sorel, French theorists of an older New Left, looked to the great pessimistic conservatives, Pascal and Tocqueville, for inspiration. The American New Left might profit by doing the same...
...three-network bidding for the rights. This time, NBC was already locked into a fiveyear, $36 million deal with the rival American Football League, and so out of the picture; and ABC, which had just committed $15.6 million for two seasons of college ball, was "not terribly interested." The virtual elimination of the competition, however, did not necessarily make it a buyers' market for CBS. For one thing, the National Football League could peddle television rights to an ad hoc sports network on a station by station basis (as has been done frequently for golf tournaments). For another...
...have contributed to the reduction. But helicopter lifts are by far the biggest. After the high-grade first aid at the front line, there is always the helicopter that takes the wounded, whether American or South Vietnamese, on their next quick trip. Slow and bumpy ambulance rides have been virtual ly eliminated by the ungainly choppers that brave everything from bullets to a sheet of monsoon rain, day or night. "Man, that chopper's roar don't bother me a bit," said a young marine last week as he watched a noisy Huey land to pick...
...Lord Coal managed to turn a modest $3.9 million profit, but rising competition, casual labor practices and overoptimistic expansion soon reddened the ink again. "If we were a private corporation," admits Robens, "the stockholders would have been bankrupt a long time ago." The government's protective measures (a virtual ban on coal imports, a twopence-per-gallon tax on oil) have been to no avail. And, despite promises that they will get new jobs, the 120,000 miners who will be thrown out of work by the pit closures are no longer sure that Alf Robens is their best...