Word: potente
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Noting that UMass is "one of the best around" in recruiting, Munro said, "Year after year they've had potent midfielders--where our weakness...
...maybe I should compare them to a more potent insect. Once a white politician told Sojourner Truth, the black abolitionist leader: "Woman, I care no more for you than a mosquito." "Maybe so," she said, "but, praise God, I'll keep you scratching...
...investors who will put their money wherever they get the highest interest rates. They may sell American bonds, buy marks with the dollars that they get, and purchase German bonds with the marks. Some are the chiefs of the increasingly rich and powerful Middle Eastern oil countries. The most potent are the financial officers of multinational corporations, who do not want to tell stockholders that they lost millions by holding onto dollars that fell in value. Volkswagenwerk is said to have saved as much as $60 million by switching some $500 million from dollars into marks in the summer before...
...learned that busing didn't seem to be a potent issue in the presence of other substantial issues. Brown avoided busing in the campaign, regarding it as an infinitely complex issue that was often seized on by racial demagogues...
...surface, appointing Giscard to France's No. 2 job might seem like political masochism-but wait. According to the script, Pompidou, 61, would not wait for the 1976 elections, when Giscard would be a more potent threat. After naming his new Premier, Pompidou would promptly resign, ask the country for a vote of confidence and get himself re-elected before the left-wing opposition has a chance to catch its breath. Voila! Another seven-year term in the Elysée Palace-if the voters go along with the scenario...