Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Necessary for a Crimson victory is a brilliant performance from Chris Ohiri. The Nigerian center forward has scored seven of the team's eight goals and may have to score frequently to offset a potent Williams offense...
...name Oetker today is as potent in West Germany's executive suites as it has ever been in the pantry. In a meteoric postwar career, Dr. Oetker's grandson, Rudolph August, 46, has made himself the nation's largest private shipowner, one of its biggest brewers, a major power in banking and insurance, and boss, in all, of more than 100 companies. Next week the baking powder baron is due in New York to inspect the Columbus Lines (18 cargo ships), which he bought from Du Pont five years...
Consider the tattered state of Old King Cotton. To perpetuate 200,000 politically potent but economically inefficient small cotton farmers in the Southeast, the Government supports cotton prices at 33? a Ib. Since this is well above the present world price of about 23? a Ib., U.S. cotton exporters complain that they cannot compete in world markets. So the Government gives them an 8½?-a-lb. export subsidy. But this distresses U.S. textile makers, who must pay 33? a Ib. for their cotton and howl that they are being swamped by imported textiles made from U.S. cotton that foreign...
...team headed by wispy Jiro Horikoshi, designer of World War II's deadly Zero fighter, the YS 11 is a response to mounting Japanese sentiment that "Japan must get its own skies back." Grounded by Occupation edicts from the end of World War II until 1952, the once potent Japanese aircraft industry has fluttered along since then by producing a handful of U.S.-designed planes under license...
...where political power and economic power are closely intertwined, few have ever played the double game so well as the brothers Lopez -Eugenio, 61, and Fernando, 58. The older and dominant brother, wizened, unsociable Eugenio. presides over "the Molasses Fund." the war chest out of which the Philippines' potent handful of big sugar planters underwrite the politicians of their choice. Personable Brother Fernando, the team's working politician, served as Vice President in the sleazy administration of President Elpidio Quirino (1948-53), and is currently president protem-pore of the Philippine Senate...