Word: dint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said. "One could even hold sway over our party's presidential election by using the telephone and nothing else." Indeed, selection has done just that: he played a crucial role in the selection of his three successors, including Nakasone. Tanaka has retained control of his party fiefdom by dint of his forceful personality and durable contacts in the government bureaucracy. He still doles out funds to his faction's candidates and scrupulously looks after his constituents. Last December, Tanaka looked on with district as a $5.1 million tunnel that serves only 60 homes in his district was completed...
...person. If a foreigner has trouble with the royal name, the sheik is likely to joke, "Call me Jake." Although he is wealthy, he and his wife avoid extravagances; the sheik is often spotted driving around in a vintage gray Chevrolet rather than a gleaming Rolls. Largely by dint of his benevolent personality, Sheik Isa succeeded in dissolving the badly divided parliament in 1975 without incurring much opposition. He now rules by decree, though he leaves the day-to-day business of governing to his brother, Prime Minister Khalifa Bin Sulman al-Khalifa...
...turned it and the show into Archie Bunker's Place. But times had changed, and with few social bubbles left to burst, the program drifted into a tame sitcom limbo that disappointed old fans and failed to win new ones. It seemed to be kept alive through dint of sheer stubborn will by O'Connor, who, as star, producer and sometime writer and director, reportedly received as much as $5 million a season. Last week CBS canceled Archie Bunker. The show will be missed nowhere near as much as the character it was built around. Archie...
...Cottle, "celebrities express the feeling of being dehumanized by dint of their celebrity. I'm trying to recapture their humanity." The trouble is that his famous guests, performers by instinct, have a tendency to be psychic strippers. With the merest prodding they will shred the last thread of privacy and reveal intimate aspects of their lives. Cottle calls it the "strangers on a train" phenomenon. Yet his guests expose themselves to a faceless audience of millions, turning viewers into video voyeurs...
Over the past two years, that gentle man with the iron spine has emerged, debatably, as the most influential member of the Reagan Cabinet. By dint of their position, he and Secretary of State George Shultz are the most powerful men in the Administration, but Weinberger enjoys a longstanding relationship with the President that Shultz can never match. As the man responsible for translating the defense imperatives of Ronald Reagan into dollars and cents, he is requesting the biggest peacetime military buildup in U.S. history, one that will cost $1.6 trillion over the next five years. Yet criticism is growing...