Word: potente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...court please, I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead to speak for me. He wrote, 'Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.' That's all I have...
...function. Inclusion in the new NATO will strengthen the values and institutions of democracy in the new member states. The very possibility of membership has already encouraged a number of countries to step up their internal reforms and improve relations with one another. This sort of progress is a potent vaccine against the kind of plague that befell the former Yugoslavia...
Discount airlines are still the most potent force in challenging the high fares in the majors' "fortress hubs." Before ValuJet resumed service between Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth in April, a round-trip ticket cost $490; subsequently, the price dropped to $138. Flying into an "alternative city" served by many discount carriers can also shave dollars. A round trip between San Diego, Calif., and Washington costs $564, but flying into Baltimore, Md., instead, a route now covered by Southwest, costs $268. "The low-cost carriers are driving the big guys crazy in cities where there was no competition," says Parsons...
...take estrogen or not to take estrogen? For millions of women approaching menopause, no other decision stirs up more anxiety or stimulates more debate. On the one hand, study after study has shown that replenishing lost stores of this potent hormone can ward off many of the ailments associated with aging--heart disease, osteoporosis, perhaps even Alzheimer's. On the other hand, many of these same studies also suggest that long-term use of estrogen increases the likelihood that a woman will develop breast cancer...
...guitars and vocals. But so far, electronic, or techno, music seems to have only a few more fans in the U.S. than Dennis Rodman has in Utah; the most heralded acts have been weak performers in the marketplace. Now the Prodigy has arrived in the U.S., and its potent album, The Fat of the Land (Maverick/Mute XL/Warner Bros.), due out July 1, is not far behind. Can the band give electronica the jolt it needs...