Word: potente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wells, meanwhile, was sterling, retiring 14 of 15 batters, fanning two. Ahead in virtually every count, Wells located his fastball cleanly and mixed speeds to bury a normally potent Northeastern order...
...story takes place in the near future, when New York residents live underground and travel via personal subway cars because of a fatally potent sun. The protagonist, fourteen-year-old Pella Marsh, leaves for a recently discovered planet with her two younger brothers and her father after her mother dies. The family moves into a small colony, a town in the making, where Americans live among the planet's indigenous inhabitants, the Archbuilders. Pella eventually becomes infected by a virus that enables her to spy unnoticed on other colonists. As the plot progresses, she develops a controlling attraction for Efram...
...Surge's effectiveness as a highly caffeinated beverage should not be doubted, (loose bladders and increased libido aside). Weiss recalls, "It did work driving from Boston to Miami straight." No-doze in a bottle, perhaps? Those more accustomed to caffeine might find the drink less potent, however. McLaughlin reports little effect on her alertness after drinking Surge. She notes, though, that her "caffeine tolerance is ridiculously high...
...Legally potent, this argument is often flaunted in higher education, for the moral justification of diversity lacks the popularity it once held, but this rationale is still important. Colleges and universities are gateways to elite society. Education is the key that grants one access to privilege, to standing, to power. Universities therefore have a moral obligation to swing wide their doors and extend to those who have historically been missing from this elite an opportunity to change this situation...
...more potent objection is that picking people at random hinders our ability to account for diversity. But this is untrue. The initial standard for qualification could be set so as to guarantee a diverse poll of admits to the lottery. True, you might by chance end up with a homogeneous group selected in a given round, but over time disparities would even out. Or, if need be, the lottery could be circumvented to allow for extraordinary circumstances...