Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legal vacuum cleaner," agrees Georgetown's William Greenhalgh, "but only if misused." Ultimately, it is only the potential for misuse that disturbs most critics. By and large, prosecutors have not gravely abused their potent weapon, perhaps out of fear of provoking judges to limit...
...Goes the Diesel. The balance of payments deficit amounts to a trifling one-half of 1% of the nation's $800 billion gross national product. But a continuation of such deficits could erode confidence in the dollar to the point where the potent U.S. economic diesel might just go pop. Congressmen generally agreed that something had to be done-quickly. There was grumbling on Capitol Hill, to be sure. Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy said that the moves were "too defensive-like punting on first down." A number of Congressmen objected to the idea of curbs...
...repeated use by a physical craving, but they may come to resort to it habitually in order to compensate for real or imagined inadequacies or to avoid real or imagined problems. This pernicious and insidious form of addiction is sometimes the first step in the direction of the more potent or physically addictive drugs. Its use is not so much a symbol of dissent in order to effectuate changes in our social system, but rather a manifestation of a selfish withdrawal from society...
...appearances at Central Texas College in Killeen, the Space Assembly Facility at Michoud, La., and the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention at Bal Harbour, Fla., Johnson mixed folksiness, fire and factitiousness to concoct a politically potent brew. Over and over again, he poured scorn on "the complainers, the critics, the doubters" and those ubiquitous "nay sayers." Repeatedly he called the roll of his Administration's breakthroughs: Medicare, aid to primary and secondary education, the poverty program and all the rest. Predictably ignoring the fact that he himself slowed down innovation and sought to curb spending increases in the past year...
...commands. Furthermore, Constantine sensed a growing threat to what was left of his royal power. He may also have feared that the new constitution that was being prepared under junta guidance would strip the crown of the power of appointing and dismissing Premiers, the King's most potent prerogative...