Word: potentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...GITLIN also argues that, despite the turmoil and tragedy of the period itself and the radical movement's undignified implosion in the Seventies, the Sixties left a potent political and social legacy that continues to operate in our own day, in forms such as a liberalized racial and sexual climate and a powerful social counterweight against Executive warmaking...
...more potent, though, is the controversy over Bush's Iran-contra role. It provides a rare window on how the Vice President performs when he is close to the Oval Office. Before the debate, a few Bush strategists were arguing with little success that the Vice President should offer a public apology. The , failure of any Republican to press the issue during the Friday night debate renewed hopes that he might ride out the storm. But if Bush is the nominee, it is an issue the Democrats are sure to revive in the fall...
...keys into a harmonious whole in The Well-Tempered Clavier, 185 years after Beethoven stretched the boundaries of the symphony with the "Eroica," and 65 years after Arnold Schoenberg exploded the tonal universe by unleashing the power of the twelve-tone system, classical music can still be a vital, potent art. But it needs a kind of panoramic energy, one that explores and prizes its past, frankly assesses its present and enthusiastically prepares for its future...
...semi-finals between the Edmonton Oilers and the Calgary Flames. With less than two minutes left in regulation and the score tied. Steve Smith picked up the puck behind his own goal. Smith was Edmonton's enforcer, a weak link on an Oiler team that was arguably the most potent offensive force in the history of the game...
Displacing such people from impoverished, drug-ridden areas is only one example of crack's nefarious impact on a city where roughly two-thirds of the criminal cases and half of its murders are said to be linked to the potent, cocaine-based drug...