Word: potentate
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...they want to draw bright lines: Are you with us or Wall Street, with ordinary families or greedy titans? They figure that if they can't get a legislative victory, they'll get a potent political issue...
...able to find a populist excuse to say nay. For example, some in both parties have turned to Fed-bashing, trying to strip the agency's regulatory powers and opposing Chairman Ben Bernanke's nomination for a second term. Who knows? In 2010, "Bailout Ben" could be just as potent a populist issue as "financial reform...
...working with monkeys to test whether ibalizumab can head off infection not just with the notoriously weaker lab strains of HIV but also but with naturally circulating strains as well. The idea is to hit the antibody with the most potent HIV around, so if the strategy doesn't work, Ho can shut down the project, before it gets too far along...
...University found the global death toll from terrorist attacks has substantially decreased since 2001. While al-Qaeda plots do sometimes succeed - like the double-agent operation that killed seven CIA officers in Afghanistan last month - they have become, Rand terrorism expert Brian Jenkins points out, less frequent and less potent...
Palfrey's colleagues praised her longstanding passion for helping children with disabilities, and Susan M. Foley, co-principal investigator of Opening Doors affiliated with UMass-Boston, commented that the "symbolism of her carrying the torch is potent...