Word: sways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When it comes to using the clout of a Harvard President to sway public policy, Rudenstine's critics have often said he is no Derek Bok, who seemed to spend more time in Congressional chambers than Massachusetts halls...
...issue of judges accrediting scientists is controversial enough. "It's very discretionary," says Sheila Jasanoff, head of science and technology studies at Cornell University. "As a result, you're getting court-driven findings as opposed to true science." But even "true" science may sometimes not be enough to sway a jury. Dow Chemical lawyers are armed with studies by Harvard and the Mayo Clinic, assessments from the Food and Drug Administration and the American Medical Association, and testimony from respected scientists, all saying there is no evidence of a significant link between silicone and systemic disease in women with implants...
Already there is reason to think that the El Nino brewing in the Pacific may dwarf just about any other seen in this century. The swath of equatorial ocean over which it holds sway extends some 6,000 miles, a quarter of the globe's circumference. Temperatures at the sea's surface have been rising so rapidly that they seem likely to equal those of the notorious El Nino of 1982-83, which left 2,000 people dead and $13 billion in economic losses. "That was the biggest El Nino we know of," says climate modeler Stephen Zebiak of Columbia...
MARIA DO CARMO GERONIMO, 126 PROOF: Baptismal record issued by the Roman Catholic Church. BRUSH WITH HISTORY: Her back bears scars from her 19th century slave master in Brazil. VICE: Only her priest knows. ODDS: The sentimental favorite, but she's never been able to sway the judges in the past...
...begin with, one way of preventing divorce is to stop bad marriages before they start. The best part of Louisiana's law requires serious premarital counseling. So many of us, under the sway of Mad-Love Disease, haven't got a clue about what we're entering into. A marriage license should be at least as hard to obtain as a driver's license. Requiring the marital equivalent of being able to parallel park might knock a little sense into heads more concerned with registering at Bloomingdale's than deciding whether the kids will be baptized...