Word: virtually
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...student politicos remained confident that their respective candidates would win, even as weekend polls showed the popular vote race narrowing to a virtual dead heat...
...musical numbers are similarly fashioned. They are a cycle of very different styles, comprising a virtual history of traditional American music, from folk ("The Ballad of Booth") to Souza ("How I Saved Roosevelt") to Bubblegum Pop ("Unworthy of Your Love...
Like hundreds of other Americans who worked in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s, Keene and Maes returned with tales of torture and virtual enslavement by their employers...
...grew together faster than he wanted. Brandt advocated a gradual merger of the two Germanys, not the virtual annexation of one by the other, and raised his voice to warn of the dangers of haste and of hubris. "Nothing lasts forever," he said in his last public statement, a speech read on his behalf to a Berlin meeting of the Socialist International as he lay dying last month. "Every era demands its own answers, and if one wants to do good, one must be prepared for them." Willy Brandt...
Real as it seems, the entire scene has been staged. The year is 2067, and the spectators are students who are learning about the battle in the safety of a classroom through the technology of virtual reality. By putting on special goggles and bodysuits, the generationally mixed students "enter" the bloody scene and experience it as if they were really there. The sights, smells, sounds -- perhaps even the sensation of warm summer breezes against the skin -- all help make an indelible impression. In the course of their studies, the pupils will experience many other important historical events that have been...