Word: potentes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...TAXES. House liberals balked at extending the 10% income tax surcharge, the most potent weapon available against inflation (see BUSINESS). In return for their support, they demanded a more thoroughgoing tax-reform package, including the oil-depletion allowances that have become a symbol of tax privilege. Only a last-minute personal intercession by Nixon saved the bill...
Nevertheless, Marxist influence is still potent, especially where men find themselves in situations somehow analogous to those that surrounded Marx in the Europe of five generations ago. Leaving aside the uses of Marxism within the Communist-ruled countries, groups especially susceptible to the vision today include the peoples of less advanced countries now experiencing early stages of modernization, and certain unassimilated groups (for example, radical U.S. blacks) in advanced countries. Equally susceptible are intellectuals and youth...
...develop better ways of relieving pain with drugs. As many as 65% of tic douloureux victims can be treated effectively, says Crue, with drugs originally designed to control epileptic seizures. For the relief of severe pain of virtually every kind, morphine and its synthetic analogues remain the most potent drugs known,* but all are highly addicting and need to be taken in stepped-up doses to maintain a constant level of analgesia. Supposedly nonaddicting substitutes are exultantly reported almost every year by research chemists, and are found just as regularly to be addicting in proportion to their effectiveness. Aspirin remains...
...answer is in doubt. He has yet to form the representative popular front that the U.S. has been urging on him for months. Though last week he did bring six political groups into what he calls the National Social Democratic Front, the alliance was not nearly so broad or potent as had been promised...
...hundred University of California students and other young people milled about, some lolling on the grass, some gibing at and singing to the National Guardsmen who surrounded them. Gradually, the grinding sound enveloped the plaza. A bulbous green helicopter swooped in over the treetops, belching white puffs of a potent military tear gas called CS. The powder settled indiscriminately on demonstrators and bystanders, drifting into classrooms and the campus hospital. The crowd in Sproul Plaza tried to flee, but gas-masked Guardsmen blocked the exits. The ubiquitous dust terrified women and children picnicking near by; youngsters in a playground half...