Word: usurps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broadcast executive Pat Robertson; Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed, his protege; and the less renowned but perhaps more influential James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family. Weakening the Graham clout further is what many experts see as a decline in the popularity of arena evangelism as other mediums usurp its religious and social functions. Competition from television and megachurches, says biographer Martin, raises the question "as to whether people will still come to that kind of thing, absent an opportunity to see Billy Graham...
Color them scared, but not frozen. Each of the three top candidates is maneuvering to thwart Wilson's prospects. Lamar Alexander, who fears that Wilson could usurp his anti-Washington, outsider mantle, reminds anyone who'll listen that Wilson pledged to finish his full term as California's Governor, "and should do just that." Phil Gramm's aides point to inconsistencies in Wilson's record--"opportunistic wafflings," says Gramm strategist Charles Black. Wilson advisers deflect such shots with blithe confidence. "Big deal," says pollster Dick Dresner. "Clinton swore he'd serve his term [as Arkansas' Governor...
There can be no stopping them now. Move over, Dallas--there's a bunch of new kids on the block looking to usurp your claim on "America's Team...
...houses. Mooseheart, where all placements are made on a voluntary basis, will give a child back to his or her biological parents or legal guardians on request. But Rose Haggerty, its director of student services, states firmly, "We don't try to reunite families. We don't mean to usurp biology, but we promote the idea that the child is growing here...
...having been too accommodating to the White House, Greenspan can say it has not always brought him peace. Indeed, the Fed had to spend much of last winter fending off a proposal by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen that would have created a superagency to regulate banks and thus usurp much of the Fed's supervisory authority. (The original plan is virtually dead.) Greenspan has also had to contend with some of Congress's most powerful members, who have long chafed at the secretive behavior of the Fed and in the past year have drafted legislation that would require the central...