Word: wield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Magazine had published its cover story on Quinn, which in her words described her as a "tough, mean, bitchy woman, who had no women friends, who had slept her way to the top to get the interviews and jobs, who had used her father's position to wield power, who considered herself a sex symbol and played it to the hilt, and who would scratch and claw anyone anytime to get what and where she wanted." Given the prevailing attitudes about successful women, the portrayal was not surprising--Barbara Walters, after all, has been accused of similar things...
...hardtop, in the parking lot outside the fashionable Machus Red Fox Restaurant in Bloomfield Township, 15 miles northwest of Detroit. But there was no sign of Jimmy Hoffa, 62, the stubby, cocky, belligerent figure who was as tough as any truck driver on the road and who loved to wield the power of the Teamsters, the strongest and most feared labor union...
...midweek that "a new government has been formed," its composition had not been revealed by week's end. Observers in Lisbon therefore concluded that Gonçalves was having great difficulty in persuading any civilians, except Communists and radical leftists, to serve in a Cabinet that would wield little real power, would be dominated by the military. Certain to be absent from the Cabinet are the moderates-the Socialists and centrist Popular Democrats, who together polled nearly two-thirds of the vote in last April's Constituent Assembly election. In opposition to the M.F.A.'s recent authoritarian...
...spent an additional $19 million that had not been authorized. Included was a voucher for $86,000 supposedly paid to the Italian Communist Party, which made sweeping gains in regional elections last month partly by boasting that its hands were "clean" of foreign oil money. The Italian Communists, who wield considerable clout in their country's municipal and union affairs, have denied they ever received the payments...
...cannot "fine tune" the economy, but must continue to seek limited yet important aims: adjusting tax, spending and money-supply policies to stimulate or restrain the economy. The recent record is scarcely reassuring. But there is ground for hope that economic managers can learn enough from past mistakes to wield their fiscal and monetary weapons more effectively...