Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawn in the Yard is a deeply, powerfully invested symbolic vehicle of meaning. It represents Harvard's economic and cultural imperialism, its sexist and elitist tendencies and its dichotomous aspiration to identify with both the British Oxbridge educational model and the American Way of life. The small "green span" we constantly traverse wields at least as much power--albeit of a different sort--as the Fed Head himself. Who knew...
...Oxbridge's lawns were sites of power assertion; their ideological transfer here brings resonances of sexist structural inequality into our own Yard (see Lawn Lib). The grass has other implications as well, which manifest themselves most clearly when contrasted with the unique position the lawn has assumed within the American Dream...
Behind timely power hitting and a battalion of solid pitchers, the Red Rolfe Division champion Harvard baseball team (26-16, 16-4 Ivy) avenged an earlier loss by beating UMass (22-17), 6-4, yesterday on O'Donnell Field...
Student activists at Harvard, however, expressed concern that the new agreement would give too much power to monitoring agencies that might be influenced by their other clients--the clothing companies themselves...
...earliest days, and the Web's first big brands -- Yahoo, Excite, Lycos -- were all search engines. But can they still cut the mustard? A new generation of search services is springing up, with names like Google and FAST, armed with next-generation technology, and they say they have the power to supplant their elders and finally make sense...