Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sympathies go out to all you men. It is a pity that the title of your oh-so-admirable gender also embodies the power hungry, cash-driven, character-squashing force who works daily to singularize our world...
However, Harvey A. Silverglate, a lawyer with the Boston firm Silverglate & Good, who has researched discipline procedures at over 400 schools, said MIT's diploma suspension represents an abuse of power...
...report also discussed proposals relating to diversity and equality in employment, nuclear power, military contracts, political action committees, executive compensation and doing business in countries with histories of human rights abuses...
Well, what about bundling Explorer with Windows in a blatant attempt to leverage operating system power over into the browser market? According to an appeals court, which in 1998 overturned Jackson's own injunction against the bundle, Microsoft's tying "combines functionalities ... in a way that offers advantages unavailable if ... [the products are] bought separately and combined by the purchaser." The appeals court is higher up on the judicial food chain than Jackson's district court and it did have three judges examine the issue, as opposed to only one. But that was last year. His egregiously embarrassing computer literacy...
...speech to the members of parliament, even though the speech is now written by the government and consists of an official outline of its political projects for the new parliamentary session. The speech is still delivered before the House of Lords, even though that chamber ceased to have real power many years ago. An officer in a funny dress still summons the members of the House Commons to listen to the Queen's speech, and the Commons still slam the door in his face and keep it closed until he has knocked three times with his staff (all to commemorate...