Word: potentate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where last year Fusco and linemates Lane MacDonald and Tim Smith were forced to carry most of the scoring load for the Crimson, this season the first line has been reinforced by a potent second unit of Allen Bourbeau centering Tim Barakett and Ed Krayer...
...things in life are more sickening than the sight of a bum who has just vomited on himself. But the iron grates provided a potent exception. They had a certain diffident brutality to them. Like the Berlin Wall. Or a jail cell. Or a strait jacket. Or a cage. They had that fragile, arrogant look of an injustice that won't be tolerated. And owing to the press, and the pressure, and an organized populace, the grates were not tolerated. They were removed...
...whole, cheap oil has far more positive effects than negative ones. Says Robert Ortner, chief economist for the Commerce Department: "It is a very potent boost for the economy." Since energy costs make up about 10% of the Consumer Price Index, smaller oil bills provide the economic elixir of growth without inflation. Many businesses get a huge profit lift from lower energy costs. The airline industry, for example, saves $110 million for every 1 cents drop in jet-fuel prices...
...American view of the future, of course, had always been exceptionally hopeful. But once that whiz-bang optimism was hitched to a 20th century faith in technology, popular notions of the future became specific and potent, all the more so as fantasy antidotes to the Depression. A gyroplane for every family! Aluminum sidewalks! Houses made entirely of Bakelite! During the late 1920s and early '30s, a remarkable new aesthetic took hold: for an object to look modern, it had to look as if it had been retrieved from the future. Among a good many designers, sentimental nostalgia for the picture...
...technique was tested on ten different types of cancer in 25 patients, for whom standard treatments had failed. Crucial to the experiment was a potent natural substance called interleukin-2 (IL-2), one of a variety of chemical messengers called lymphokines that help control the activities of the immune system. Studies have shown that IL-2 is capable of transforming certain white blood cells into powerful, anticancer killer cells. Using an elaborate blood-separating apparatus, Rosenberg and his team withdrew white cells from each patient and treated them with IL-2. After incubating for three or four days, the activated...