Word: potentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sears catalog is not just a potent sales tool. It is America's family album. When the 1897 catalog was reprinted in 1968, 150,000 copies were sold at $15 each. "One can find evidence of our present vices and our present virtues in this splendid volume," wrote Journalist Richard Rovere. "This catalog is at once a product and a display of our culture, especially our mass culture." This summer 12 million copies of the fall-winter edition were sent free to customers who had ordered at least $30 worth of merchandise in the past six months. Another...
...South Pacific fell victim to the disease. The U.S. Army responded with what has been called "a biological Manhattan Project." It led to development of chloroquine. More effective than quinine, it was hailed as a wonder drug. Wartime research also yielded a wonder pesticide: DDT. It was the potent combination of chloroquine and massive DDT spraying in Asia, South America and Africa (and even in the U.S., where there were pockets of malaria as recently as 1950) that fostered WHO's rosy vision of conquering malaria once...
...failure to do better was all the more glaring because Peres' opponent was not, as in 1977 and 1981, the impassioned Menachem Begin but the untried and colorless Shamir. The outcome confirmed that the Sephardim, who now constitute a majority of Israel's population, have become a potent political force. Many of them hold a grudge against Labor for supposedly neglecting their needs during the 1950s and 1960s...
...called Vietnam legacy is a potent political tool these days, and Karnow, who makes strong claims to historical objectivity in his book and documentary, must realize that his current educational mission can only work to raise fears about any military involvement abroad...
Flurbiprofen is a more potent version of ibuprofen, which was approved in May for over the counter sales and was used in prescription form since 1974 to treat arthritis pain and other problems...