Word: virtually
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...state legislators. Despite continued lavish spending by the tobacco lobby to try to influence Congress, for the first time members of the antismoking Congressional Task Force on Tobacco and Health outnumber pro-tobacco House members, 58 to 42. "The tobacco industry, while still a powerful force, has lost its virtual stranglehold on Congress," says antismoking activist John Banzhaf, executive director of Action on Smoking and Health...
...Lesser known takes pains to be faithful to the common images of the presidents, for he tells us, "if you deviate too much, they won't get their pleasure." The Lesser Known boasts that he played Lincoln so well that people "pronounced the two men in virtual kinship...
...losses have been staggering. Last winter, Russian officials estimated that between 80 and 96 tigers were killed, and the poaching continues unabated this year. A new study of tiger-population dynamics led by biologist John Kenney of the University of Minnesota suggests that even moderate poaching makes extinction a virtual certainty once a tiger census drops below 120. Unless the Russian government controls hunting, the Amur tiger will cross that threshold within two or three years...
...With its virtual monopoly on the Harvard computer market--Harvard students are not able to buy from other universities--TPC has no incentive to improve its inferior customer service. Harvard students, seeking some sort of a discount on pricey computer equipment, turn to TPC because, more often than not, they have nowhere else to turn. TPC, then, takes advantage of their predicament...
...because their meetings are just for recreational purposes, it's a waste of time," Kim added. "Calling them meetings is ridiculous, they're more just 'virtual get-togethers.' It's like a party line...