Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beauty of the Internet, of course, is that it flies right over those state and national borders. To get around nettlesome gambling laws, all you have to do is put your computer operations offshore, in a country where the laws are more tolerant or nonexistent. Most of the virtual casinos are setting up shop in the Caribbean, in tropical getaways like St. Martin, Antigua, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. Belize is considering legislation that would make it the Monte Carlo of cybergambling. "Everyone says it's a banana republic over there, and no one will regulate," says Kerry Rogers...
...their ability to run a straight operation. "We're the only [Internet gambling] company that's publicly traded" and thus more accountable, says spokesman Michael Brown. Sports International has signed an agreement with IntraCorp, a well-known computer-gamemaker, to write software that would allow players to "take a virtual walk through the casino, even stop at the bar and have a drink." A virtual drink, of course...
During football season sophomore fall, I started to write honkers like: "The fourth quarter [against Columbia] degenerated into a `qui es mui macho' contest over which team could shoot itself in the foot with the bigger gun." Or: "The first three Cornell scores were virtual gifts from St. Restic and his 45 reindeer." Suffice it to say these statements didn't play well in Mather, Currier and Kirkland (Where Intelligence Is Just Another Big Word) Houses...
Really. Truly. There's only so much you can read about "virtual off-ramps" and "cyber-traffic" without vowing to find--and somehow quietly dispose of-- the person who coined that descriptive terms for the Internet...
...students malign the Coop most for itstextbook prices. Because it has a virtual monopolyin Harvard Square, they say, it jacks up textbooksprices to pay for other, less profitabledepartments...