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ENTER Mr. Kiley, who was wooed and won in a three-week span and, based on his reputation as a nonpareil Mr. Fix-it after four years of streamlining Boston's transit system in the 70's and seven more spent scrubbing and modernizing New York's then-decrepit system in the 80's, was virtually allowed to co-author his four-year contract.

The palette is virtually infinite, allowing anything but navy blue, which looks too much like black.

With the storms swirling far offshore, the skies in the metropolitan area were virtually cloudless, allowing the sun to fire up another heat wave.

The Pentagon's oversight of the Afghan guards is virtually nonexistent, allowing local security deals among American military commanders, Western contracting companies and Afghan warlords who are closely connected to the violent insurgency, according to the report by investigators on the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Escape was virtually impossible.

It was virtually dead.

It was virtually silent.

Haemorrhage was virtually absent.

Additionally, because the breath sample supply is virtually limitless, it allows the rapid collection of multiple samples and even lends itself to continuous real-time monitoring (Gordon et al. 1998).

In parts of the country where unionization is not allowed or is virtually impossible to achieve, we must work to change the laws and find alternative models of collective organizing.

The Obama administration has proposed keeping the tax cuts in place for most Americans, and there's virtually no chance of lawmakers allowing the AMT, which is not indexed for inflation, to encroach drastically upon the electorate.