Word: wield
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Precisely how much power Turner will wield remains to be seen. The legislation establishing the CIA in 1947 gave the director, as his title suggests, a certain degree of authority over all the intelligence agencies; he was charged with "coordinating" their activities. But he only loosely performed that function. The new executive order considerably enhances the director's authority and responsibility. He has control of the total intelligence budget (an estimated $7 billion a year) and the right to give assignments to all the agencies. Turner's position ultimately depends on the power realities of Washington and his own abilities...
...reserved for Luftwaffe Boss Hermann Goring. Demanding that "the Führer [turn] Goring into a man again," Goebbels exclaims: "Bemedaled idiots and vain perfumed coxcombs have no place in our war leadership." Thanks to Goring's uninterrupted record of incompetence, argues Goebbels, the Luftwaffe has failed to wield the air superiority essential for victory...
...part, the police have been summoning gang leaders to appear at the police station for tongue-lashings in an effort to shame them into giving up crime. "We are trying to change the waters the gangsters swim in," said a police officer. Perhaps the most devastating weapon the communities wield against the yakuza is social ostracism. Parents tell their children not to play with those of the gangsters; shop owners and wives snub the families of the yakuza...
...Currier House Committee is trying to form an undergraduate government, and will hold a constitutional convention at some as-yet-unspecified date. That government, Currier House spokesmen said, would wield more power than the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, which merely advises the administration...
...union chiefs in the payoff-Fitzsimmons and Anthony (Tony) Provenzano, Teamster boss in New Jersey until he was convicted for labor racketeering in 1963. After Provenzano was released from prison in 1970, he too was barred from union activities, but for five years, and he nonetheless continued to wield great power among Teamsters. He is regarded by the FBI as a prime suspect in Hoffa's disappearance...