Word: powerfully
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Under a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (the McCarran-Walter Act) of 1952, the U.S. Attorney General has the power to decide whether Mandel is allowed into the country. His two earlier visits were authorized because the Justice Department decided that the political climate had mellowed since the act was passed. Now, apparently, Attorney General John Mitchell thinks that it has changed for the worse once again...
Browbeating. A look at the boss's background suggests what is expected. For a decade, Shakespeare-a graduate of Holy Cross and a World War II Navy veteran-was a senior vice president and second in command at CBS. Then he lost out in a company power struggle. In 1968, he ran Richard Nixon's successful television campaign and gained a cynical, ruthless reputation that made him the villain of Joe McGinniss' book, The Selling of the President 1968. In one incident, McGinniss reports that Shakespeare, when told of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, exulted: "What...
...investigate any traces of lunar atmosphere-to go into a stand-by mode; that would allow earthly gases left within them to bake out during the torrid two-week-long lunar day (maximum temperature: 240° F.). Once freed of these vapors, which interfere with their high-voltage power supply, the instruments will be switched into full operation...
...determined to keep it thoroughly subservient to the six governments that brought it into being. On two occasions De Gaulle vetoed British membership. During one seven-month period, he ordered his ministers to boycott all meetings of the Six to demonstrate his displeasure over what he considered supranational power plays by the EEC Commission. De Gaulle became a symbol of obstinacy, but he also provided a convenient screen for the other members, who disagreed too about the way in which the Market was being shaped. Publicly, the five deplored France. Privately, they occasionally scuttled Market proposals that collided with their...
...would be a vigorous, creative economic union that really did look beyond the narrow interests of French farmers and Walloon miners. Such a union, with Britain added to the present Six, would mean a Common Market of nearly 240 million people. Japan has managed to become a leading commercial power-and a growing political force-with less than half that many...