Word: potentate
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...nick of time too, because a bruising global battle has really just begun. As more countries become industrial powerhouses and their companies seek larger marketplaces, the U.S. will meet more and stronger competitors. Japan, the most potent of them all, is pushing into such American strongholds as biotechnology and supercomputers. Western Europe is coming up fast in aeronautics and office equipment. The newly industrialized countries are staking out their turf as low-cost producers of everything from steel to TV sets. And the U.S. may face a fresh competitive breeze from Canada as a result of the free-trade agreement...
...quake measured 6.1 on the Richter scale, a small shock compared with the 8.1 horror that hit Mexico City in 1985 and the 1906 San Francisco catastrophe that carried a Richter punch later estimated at 8.3. Still, last week's temblor was the most potent in Southern California since 1971, when the San Fernando Valley rumbled under a 6.6 assault and 64 people died. Last week's quake left more than 100 injured and six dead, including an electrical repairman buried in an underground tunnel, a college student struck by falling concrete in a campus garage, and three people...
...that. Curator Peter Galassi has mounted 90 photographs that Cartier-Bresson, 79, took at the outset of his career, mostly from 1932 through 1934. During those years he put aside his ambitions as a painter and began stalking the streets of three continents with a lightweight Leica and a potent surrealist intuition, an eye for the unearthly subtext of ordinary scenes. Add his powerful gift for spatial arrangement, and the result, says Galassi, is "one of the great, concentrated episodes of modern...
...risky steps. He brought talented Jewish scientists into the institute. He began building a corps of young scientists and selecting projects based on their scientific value rather than the political standing of scientists. He fought for access to computers. Most important, and politically the riskiest, he introduced a potent measure of democracy into the Soviet program. "Before Sagdeyev," says Louis Friedman, executive director of the U.S. Planetary Society, "the Soviet space program was closed. Now they talk about their plans. They even argue in public. He has materially changed the way they do major projects." Declares Thomas Donahue, chairman...
...dashing defensive talents aside, Groome is a potent offensive force. Last year, as the sharp shooter on the Crimson penalty corner crew, she banged in a pair of goals and added an assist, finishing fourth on the team scoring chart...