Word: potentate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Harvard is not on the break, it will undoubtedly try to find sophomore forward Ron Mitchell, who has been the Crimson's most potent force in the last two games. Mitchell led all scorers with 21 points against Holy Cross, and his work in the paint keyed Harvard's second-half come-back over Brandeis...
Inside the house were more bodies: Fathers Amado Lopez and Juan Ramon Moreno, both Spaniards; Father Joaquin Lopez y Lopez, a Salvadoran; and the cook's 15-year-old daughter. By midday the bodies were still lying beneath the sun, and the potent stench of lifeless flesh, which I associate so closely with El Salvador, was already fouling their once peaceful place of refuge...
Democrats should jump on this potent issue before the Republicans claim it. Under Reagan, both the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget proposed limiting T and E deductions. If Democrats are serious about favoring the working class and opposing corporate free-loaders, they should eliminate the T and E deduction entirely...
...Dinkins has not done much -- beyond showing up -- to respond to that hope. After trouncing Koch, he seemed prepared to coast into city hall on the euphoria of his primary win. He glad-handed his way through the general election, underestimating the potent challenge Giuliani was mounting under the tutelage of media meister Roger Ailes. In the closing weeks of the race, Giuliani nearly overcame Dinkins' double-digit lead in the polls. Giuliani launched a subtle appeal to the fears of white voters and exploited widespread disgust with the corruption that plagued Koch's final term by raising troubling questions...
...into their roles with the black comic gusto that Glenn Close and John Malkovich brought to their feverish performances in Dangerous Liaisons last year. But besides spoiling the fun, this approach / blurs the work's value as a cautionary tale, capable of reminding us that motiveless malignity is a potent force in every age and one that not even Freud -- let alone humanistically inclined moviemakers -- can explain away...