Word: wield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terms of effectiveness, one-party rule can again prove stifling. The Massachusetts legislature, which could wield great force in solving Cambridge's ills, was ranked 33rd in a recent non-partisan study of the 50 state legislatures in the country. The study tested the legislatures for efficiency, service to constituents, length of sessions and other factors. "Interestingly, those legislatures that were ranked lower than Massachusetts were mostly those states that have been dominated by a one-party system longer than we have," the Massachusetts Republican State Committee noted. "Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Vermont, Kansas, and other states completely enswathed...
Harvard should not ignore the policies of companies it makes money from, and Middle South Utilities is a company whose hiring policy seems far from enlightened. The University could probably wield a great deal of influence with Middle South because of both its large stock holdings and its considerable influence in the Northeast; it will continue to share the responsibility for Middle South's hiring policies until it starts trying to change them. --Nick Lemann...
...other levels of society, we are aware that violence can find vicarious expression. The maker of military strategy in his air-conditioned office is spared the reek of war, but nonetheless participates. One who is financially benefited from the production of arms need not necessarily wield them to be responsible for the resultant violence. With sex-related crimes this is also the case. The root of sexual violence is the linking of sex with a dominance-submission schema. Wherever there is sexual intercourse in the context of dominance/submission, it should rightfully be called rape. For in order to enforce dominance...
...Saudi king long resisted calls by such firebrands as Libya's Strongman Muammar Gaddafi and Iraq's President Ahmed Hassan Bakr that the Arabs wield their "oil weapon" for political gains. But after Egypt and Syria invaded Israel last month, Feisal finally agreed to cut back the flow of oil. Later, when President Nixon announced that he would ask Congress to send Israel $2.2 billion worth of arms, Feisal exploded with rage and shut...
...instrumental in averting a walkout of 13,000 railroad signalmen in 1969 and later settled a bitter, eleven-week teachers' strike in Philadelphia. In directing and coordinating the political, civil rights and community-affairs activities of the AFL-CIO'S extensive field staffs, he is expected to wield enormous influence within the labor movement. His lack of a solid power base within the AFL-CIO, however, may block his advance if Meany steps down in the near future...