Word: virtually
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...were some surprises, particularly the Minnesota Twins and , the Los Angeles Angels' to Ring Lardner. The Twins combined solid pitching by Camilo and Jim Lee, fine relieving by Dick , and the surprising power of rookies Bernie Allen, Don Mincher, and Rollins to take seven of eight move into a virtual tie with Cleveland for second place. The Twins will not be a pennant contender, but Cal Grimth's sharp off-season dealing will probably bring the Twin Cities their first first-division team this year...
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Because Greyhound had a virtual monopoly of existing long-haul interstate routes and the ICC was unwilling to franchise new ones, Moore was obliged to build up his system by buying small local bus lines in a careful pattern that linked them into new long-haul routes. Octopus-like, Continental stretched its tentacles across the Southeast and into the Midwest; by 1953 the company had its first transcontinental route (it now operates five). At that point Moore found that his fledgling system lacked the equipment to capitalize on the bus industry's greatest potential asset: the growing U.S. network...
Under current treaty arrangements, the U.S. has virtual veto power over the use of force by the Nationalists. But in Washington there was scant support for an invasion. Although State Department experts agreed that severe economic troubles have greatly weakened Mao's regime, most were skeptical that any commando raids by Chiang would touch off a general revolt. The U.S. also could not believe that Khrushchev would sit back and watch the Chinese Communists fall, whatever his disagreements with his rival in Peking. Still, the question of support for the Nationalists was not easily dismissed...
...Briggs remained in office while Abbott Lawrence Lowell, against whose reform proposals Briggs and Eliot had plotted, became president. Lowell wanted to take a hand in college affairs and disliked Briggs personally; Briggs commanded the virtual adoration of alumni and students and was far too popular to remove. Lowell's course of action was classic; he moved Briggs upstairs to the third floor office space in University Hall now occupied by the freshman deans and cut him off from all important decisions. The two continued this way for 16 years, until Lowell finally was able to appoint...