Word: virtually
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...rarely gone for grand, overarching Themes. Besides, I've already written two virtual magna opera for this very editorial page on semi-overarching themes. I don't think the world really needs another...
...wise policy decisions their so-called representatives are failing to make for them. And now, vaguely similar noises are coming from someone with real power -- inside-the-Beltway power, no less. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who last week spoke at a Washington conference called Democracy in Virtual America, is trying to move Congress toward a "virtual Congress." He envisions a House committee holding "a hearing in five cities by television while the actual committee is sitting here." He's also letting C-SPAN's cameras, the electorate's virtual eyeballs, peer into more congressional hearings. And under...
...this morning, after making no progress in a 25-hour negotiating session that lasted all night Tuesday. More than 6,800 union workers took to the picket lines, calling for GM to reduce overtime and hire more permanent employees.TIME Detroit bureau chief Bill McWhirterdescribes the latest walkout as a "virtual replay" of last October's strike at another Flint plant, when GM reluctantly gave in to the strikers' demands for a staff increase. McWhirter says that GM's current hard stance is surprising. "By giving in last October GM made it hard to say 'no' to the same issues...
...President talks amiably with the virtual President, even as his lieutenants prepare for war. Last week Democratic whip David Bonior threatened that if the Republicans try to railroad bills through, "we'll blow up the tracks." Perhaps they will try. But pure obstructionism won't help Clinton or the Democrats, and there are now two engineers driving the train...
...that invites Internet visitors to heave snowballs at engineers working at an Air Force base in Rome, New York. Like so many other Pentagon projects, however, the Snowball Cam turned out to be less than it promised. The lab was real. So were the engineers. The snowballs, however, were "virtual" -- which is to say, no fun at all. But that didn't prevent Internet users from stopping by the site before Christmas -- at the rate of one every minute and a half...