Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since no party stands to win a clear majority, De Gaulle's prestige is still the most potent political force in France. If opposition groupings should get too strong, he can threaten to dissolve the National Assembly and take any issue to the nation. One such issue may well be his plan to revise the constitution to provide for the direct popular election of a President...
...stands for the simple, easy, sportswear type of fashions against the contrived kind. She stands for the Givenchy look and all its interpretations over here, as against the fussier French fashions. She stands for colors, and for forgetting all the nonsense about definite seasons. She is the most potent force in international fashion today...
...perpetuate the unproductive but politically potent cotton farmers of the Southeast-and the thousands of small Southern businessmen who live off them -the U.S. props cotton prices at 33? a lb. v. the comparable world price...
...tradition of producing non-scholars, finds it hard to thinking of potential scholars and of other students assures, how much harder it will be other universities. And, as Merit continues to set a standard, and to think of the idea as a Ph.D. preparatory school pervasive standard will become potent...
...which Schmidt and Baldwin were hooked up last week provides such a change. A pump sends a continuous infusion into an artery in each subject's left arm. In the infused fluid is an infinitesimal amount-1/90,000 oz. per day-of a mysterious and immensely potent substance called angiotensin. Explained Dr. Frederic C. Bartter, head of NIH's hormone studies: "We know that a lot of angiotensin raises the blood pressure and causes salt retention. What we need to know is whether an increase so small that it does not raise the blood pressure will nonetheless...