Word: wield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...role of the Undergraduate Council, as seen by the Dowling Committee, would be to constructively wield its considerable power on behalf of student concerns. That is why we connected it with student-faculty committees, and why it was funded...
Secondly, the writer states that Bok's $1 million fund is again a contradiction of earlier statements. He claims that Bok's refusal "to wield economic power" against those Harvard dislikes is violated by the establishment of the fund, as it would be used to fight apartheid. Wrong. The purpose of the $1 million fund is not to wield economic or political power but to support educational and individual efforts. This is clearly different from using Harvard's multi-billion dollar endowment as a political bludgeoning device. Bok has never stated that Harvard cannot allow educational objectives to filter outside...
Well, the owners still wield an oppressively strong hand. In fact, in some players' contracts, there are clauses which say they have to actually play in a certain number of games to get paid. They might as well play for the Politburo. And, who says you actually have to play baseball to get paid for doing...
What are the prospects that the immigrants, and eventually their children, will be fully integrated into American life? The process so far has been slow. Politically, Hispanics have yet to wield anything like the clout of the blacks that they are rapidly overtaking in numbers, primarily because voter registration among Hispanics has remained low. Many either are not citizens or are too young to vote, but estimates in Los Angeles are that only half of those who are eligible to register do so. Many Hispanics are too busy earning a living to vote, and some come from countries where elections...
Opposition to the proposed panel-whose five members will wield broad powers to scrutinize the Police Department's behavior and to investigate wrong doing--was spearheaded by City Councilor Walter J. Sullivan, who tried to delete the expenditure from the 1986 municipal budget Sullivan's motion divided the city council evenly, failing to win the necessary five votes for passage...