Word: potentate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson (2-8 ever all, 0-5 in the lives) next faces 10-2 Holy Cross a potent offensive force that crushed Villanova Saturday...
Directors Chang and Levendosky have taken on an ambitious first-time directorial effort. But while they coordinate a great mass of movement and drama, the play rarely hits the audience in the gut as hard as it seemingly tries to. Taken together, the music, songs, and soliloquies are more potent than the "shocking" depictions of rape, murder, and drug-dealing, which do not deliver much emotional impact; the mannerisms of the actors seem too rough and harsh, their earnestness and suffering too histrionic...
...recounting, often disapprovingly but also with some sympathy, decisions made by his predecessors stretching back to Harry Truman; 2) to defend Nixon's own record, sometimes more emphatically than in his muted memoir; 3) to reassert the implacability of Communist adversaries and the consequent need to maintain a potent military posture; and 4) to prescribe a future course that would couple a strong defense establishment with a much enhanced economic aid program, aimed at stimulating Third World entrepreneurship and two-way trade. Nixon's proposals have been hailed as sound if not original. But his appraisal of his own stewardship...
...self-help of the title refers only very tangentially to the mass-market platitudes of the subgenere whose parameters are delimited by the disparate likes of Normal Vincent Peale and Alex (joy of sex) Comfort The idea of the self-help manual provides Moore with her most potent and original stylistic device: six of the nine stories in the book are cast in that least-employed from of narrative, yhe second person, The irony, of course, is that this form of address comes not by way of advice and is not at all directed towards the reader Far from being...
...merely a matter of his potent personality. For unlike most video- generated celebrities, Iacocca was not famous simply for being famous: he had done something. By 1983, everyone could see that Iacocca had, in fact, carried out his immense logistical mission. He had managed to whip a sprawling company into shape, and saved American autoworkers' jobs by the tens of thousands. Congress had fussed. The White House had postured. Out in the Rust Belt, Iacocca proved he could make things work. His feat was by no means single-handed: the Government's $1.5 billion guarantee of Chrysler loans was essential...