Word: virtually
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Truman and Eisenhower Administrations to divorce it from Western Electric, and not much is heard about that any more. A virtual monopoly almost since it was founded in 1877, the Bell System has preserved its special status by arguing that it is much more efficient and economical than a lot of little, local phone companies would be. It has agreed not to invade the territory of the 2,645 independent companies that control the remaining 17% of the phone business. Largest of the independents by far is General Telephone & Electronics Corp., which has 5,000,000 phones as well...
...from the Vatican came not a word. Instead, Maccari returned for a cleanup. Result: the trinket vendors drifted away, and the Spiritual Daughters were shorn of their powers. There were cries of "inquisitor," but Maccari had his way. Padre Pio was put under guard, and he soon found himself virtual prisoner in his own convent; his mail was opened and read; he was forbidden to celebrate Easter Mass in 1961 and to perform weddings or baptisms...
Aliens at Home. Under the bill, natives stand to be converted into virtual aliens outside their tribal reservations and shuttled between "white areas" like a mobile labor pool. An expanded network of government labor bureaus and "aid centers" is to decide where all 7,000,000 African laborers will work, and at what tasks. If an African doesn't take a job offered him, he will be immediately "endorsed out"-the term under which the regime banishes undesirable natives back to their villages...
Alice and Eric were virtual prisoners for the next two weeks. If Eric telephoned Alice he was curtly told she wasn't home. If she called him, she received the same treatment. They wrote each other, and their letters were intercepted...
Assessing the scientific problems facing the Johnson Administration, International Science and Technology was not overly inspired by President Johnson's new scientific adviser. "Donald Hornig of Princeton is a virtual stranger on the Washington scene," sniffed the monthly magazine. That's a dirty fib, piped up one who thought he ought to know. Said Chris Hornig, 10, in a fiery, pencil-written letter-to-the-editor: "In a past issue you said that Donald Hornig was a virtual stranger to Washington. My father has served for three Presidents, and is in Washington so much that...