Word: potente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston Red Sox's biggest move was stealing General Manager Dan Duquette from the Montreal Expos. In addition, the signing of outfielder Otis Nixon given the Bosox a potent leadoff hitter. How the new coaching staff and manager Butch Hobson will get along is still a mystery, especially after the unceremonious way his old staff was dumped by Lou Gorman (sort of like the way Gorman was dumped himself...
...graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe, Roiphe claims that the focus on violence against women in our culture has led to a redefinition of women as victims, passive vessels against the potent force of male sexuality...
Truth teller is perhaps the kindest name that the industry would think to call the actress, whose strong will has often butted against Hollywood's tender backside. She was outspoken in her early plush years, when potent turns in Urban Cowboy, An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment made her the movies' most promising -- and delivering -- young actress. She wore her wild streak in public: sex, drugs, locking horns with directors and co-stars. She turned down meaty roles in several popular films (including Broadcast News) and walked off another (A League of Their Own). Her star waned...
Several days before he shocked the world by becoming the most potent opposition figure in Russia, Vladimir Zhirinovsky stood in Moscow's largest department store to ballyhoo his candidacy for his nation's first freely elected parliament. In the midst of denouncing Boris Yeltsin's reform program, Zhirinovsky, 47, abruptly turned away from his audience, marched to a lingerie counter and seized an expensive brassiere. Twirling it on his fingers, he proclaimed that if he were voted into office, he would provide cheap underwear for his constituents...
...biblical scholarship; one cannot believe in a literal interpretation of Scripture and dismiss the role that angels play throughout it. Furthermore, for many theologians the belief fulfills the promise of a merciful God. In the face of war, hunger, AIDS, drugs, sorrow and fear, only a force more potent than any earthly power could provide peace. "These are desperate times," says Peter Kreeft, a philosophy professor at Boston College. "People seek supernatural solutions to their problems. We want to reassure ourselves of our spiritualism...