Word: potente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bosnia in 1995. It helped drive Milosevic to Dayton, Ohio, where he signed a peace accord. An Air Force study concluded that the key lessons were to hit hard and use precision weapons. "Precision weapons gave NATO airmen the ability to execute a major air campaign that was quick, potent and unlikely to kill people or destroy property to an extent that would cause world opinion to rise against the operation," the study concluded...
There is nothing new about such embittered confrontations; they have dogged Freud's footsteps since he developed the cluster of theories he would give the name of psychoanalysis. His fundamental idea--that all humans are endowed with an unconscious in which potent sexual and aggressive drives, and defenses against them, struggle for supremacy, as it were, behind a person's back--has struck many as a romantic, scientifically unprovable notion. His contention that the catalog of neurotic ailments to which humans are susceptible is nearly always the work of sexual maladjustments, and that erotic desire starts not in puberty...
...classic exemplars of that small, elite class of science-fiction writers who frighten and annoy science-fiction devotees. Huxley's Brave New World (1932) bursts with prescient speculation: "feelie" multimedia, Prozac-like "soma" tranquilizers, test-tube babies. Late in life Huxley became a psychedelics guru, seduced by the potent allure of brain chemistry...
...PLAYERS: Co-Captain A.J. Mleczko, the best player in college hockey, is as potent an offensive threat as they come. The 1998 gold medallist led the nation in scoring with 36 goals and 73 assists...
Mleczko herself could make any team potent offensively, but her linemates, Shewchuk and freshman winger Jen Botterill, have also had dominating years. The Harvard first line has been a veritable Cerberus. Shewchuk's 50 goals and 50 assists are good for the second best point total in the country, and Botterill, the top freshman scorer in the nation and Rookie of the Year in the ECAC and Ivy League, is third overall with 33 goals and 47 assists...