Word: virtually
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...Harvard has bucked the trend. Instead of running a three-guard offense, like Pennsylvania, or a virtual four-guard offense, like Princeton, Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan is lucky to have two people to bring the ball down the floor...
...heard all the jokes: we know that "spacy" and "flaky" seem almost to have been invented for California and that in the dictionary California is a virtual synonym for "far out." Ever since gold was first found flowing in its rivers, the Shangri-La La of the West has been the object of as many gibes as fantasies: just over a century ago, Rudyard Kipling was already pronouncing that "San Francisco is a mad city, inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people" (others might say "insanely perfect"); and more than 40 years ago, S.J. Perelman was barreling down...
...rundown U.S. economy sent discouraging new signals last week that it cannot shake the blahs. In one major sign of weakness, a virtual Who's Who of blue-chip companies reported huge losses or falling profits for the third quarter of this year. Citicorp lost $885 million largely because of red ink at its Quotron stock-reporting service and costs stemming from the layoff of 5,000 workers earlier this year. The largest U.S. banking firm said it would suspend its dividend and dismiss several thousand more workers. Among manufacturers, IBM said slumping sales caused its profits to plunge...
...past several decades, if not centuries, the University's finances have been organized to preserve the virtual independence of each of Harvard's nine schools...
Although Venezuela is one of the world's leading oil producers, it has been in virtual economic freefall for the past decade, said Dr. Pablo Pulido, president of the Metropolitan University Foundation in Venezuela. While 37 percent of Venezuelans lived in poverty in 1981, 80 percent are now officially considered poor, he said...