Word: ordain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conversely, in an absence of kinds of powers it was once able to exercise, even though it's taken some of the powers back from the presidency. It's unable to do things in the old sense. The country in the world is operating differently--we can no longer ordain things; I'm not sure that's at all bad, but it's a condition. We can't just wave our hands and some "militants" will give up American citizens. And we find that we can't just send in the Marines. People themselves are operating in a time when...