Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent years, changing memberships and alumni attitudes have weakened the clubs' networking power...
...according to Will, it was actually President Richard M. Nixon, "with his chronic insecurities and resentments, who did the most to bring professors to power...
...says he found his calling while working on legislation to study the prospects of a national public service program. Trading ideas and hopes with Khazei--who was still in Cambridge--every night by phone, Brown says it was during that year that he came to understand the power of service to "focus and mature...
...been humbled in state elections twice in as many weeks as the party?s traditional support base stayed home to protest the chancellor?s proposed sweeping welfare cuts. Last Sunday?s elections in the former East German state of Thuringia saw Schroeder?s party not only turfed out of power, but also humiliated by finishing third behind the communists. With the eastern state of Saxony due to vote Sunday, the party is bracing for more bad news, and resistance to Schroeder?s leadership is mounting. "Schroeder?s reforms are drastic, even compared with the conservative Christian Democratic government that preceded...
...While the government and military leadership in Jakarta have vowed to cooperate with the peacekeeping mission, their previous promise to rein in the militia meant very little on the ground. "There are different power centers competing for control over Indonesia, and all decisions have to be negotiated among them," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Jakarta has effectively admitted that it's lost control of at least some of its own forces in East Timor. The New York Times reports that General Prabowo Subianto, a close ally of the former dictator Suharto and a rival to current military leader General...