Word: potental
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...offense will be no slouch either. Despite a heated quarterback controversy, the team's attack should be as potent as ever, with senior all-Ivy running back Terrance Stokes leading the charge. Stokes used the team's multiple-one-back alignment to rush for 1,211 yards last season, including a school record 272 against Princeton...
...privileges. For as little as $55 a year, consumers could twinkle in fellowship with such glitterati as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ella Fitzgerald and Meryl Streep. All one had to do was wave one's little piece of green, gold or platinum plastic, and waiters and clerks would fawn prettily. Such potent snob appeal once seemed irresistible -- until American Express "cardmembers" began weighing the costs of privilege against the benefits of more plebeian credit cards. While the AmEx elite shelled out annual fees, Discover clients were issued free cards. Amex users had to pay their bills in full each month; savvy bank...
...vitamins, they must be ingested as food. "If we don't eat enough," says Siguel, "then we won't have enough." And that would be unfortunate, for these compounds -- principally linoleic acid and linolenic acid -- are vital to the maintenance of cell membranes and to the manufacture of potent chemical messengers that regulate everything from blood pressure to the firing of nerves...
...measure of the evil that has swept through Rwanda that the symbolic guilt represented by Cyangugu's stadium was more potent than any reassurances the ministers could offer. Before the speeches had concluded, 2,000 more Hutu, convinced that they would be killed by the new government if they stayed in Rwanda, were already trudging across the border to the Zairean town of Bukavu...
...possible to transcend the apparent limitations of the sonnet, for within its confines, one can say whatever one wishes. Likewise, Byrd showed that it was possible to outstep the ostensible boundaries for plainsong writing by imbuing it with a passion (perhaps a bit cerebral by Romantic standards, but potent passion nevertheless) that stemmed from his religious frustration as a staunch Roman Catholic in Anglican England. Similarly, though Bach was "only" a Lutheran, his music resonates with passion that many of his interpreters and biographers sought to downplay or even negate, thinking it incongruous with the strict Baroque compositional forms...