Word: potente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just a ruse. As Yogi Berra might say, the President may be dumb, but he isn't stupid. He knows his plan is too silly to pass. He knows that most Democrats favor more radical reform. But now his name is no the health care scoreboard, blunting a potent Democratic weapon. His gambit is that voters will be too confused by the intricacies of health care reform to be able to distinguish between rivaling plans. He may be right...
...variety of student viewpoints and bringing to our campus recognized authorities on race and culture, this invitation is deeply hurtful and divisive. By offering a Harvard podium to an avowed anti-Semite and a man whose race pride is built on hatred of others, the BSA is condoning a potent form of prejudice...
Harvard boasts U.S. national player Sandra Whyte, who plays on one of hockey's most potent lines with senior Ginny Simonds and sophomore Joey Alissi; Jen Minkus, who centers a much-improved second line; and all-Ivy defensewoman Bev Stickles...
...shrinking back before the cavalry and the railroad. Manifest Destiny. The notion that all historians propagated this triumphalist myth uncritically is quite false; you have only to read Parkman or Prescott to realize that. But after it left the histories and sank deep into popular culture, it became a potent myth of justification for plunder, murder and enslavement...
Part of the fallacy then, which Fukuyama perpetuates, was an obsessive focus on ideology. Of course ideas can be wonderful, or terrible, and potent; you don't have to be a Hegelian to know that. But Fukuyama invests abstractions -- comprehensive categories and grand postulations -- with more weight than messy reality will support. For instance, in a chart intended to show how the number of "liberal democracies" on earth has grown, he includes Singapore, where there are laws against chewing gum and failing to flush public toilets; Sri Lanka, where murderous ethnic and religious violence continues nonstop; and Colombia, where narcoterrorists...