Word: wield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frankfurter's practical education in the extrajudicial clout a Supreme Court Justice can wield came not from the tactful and cautious experimentation that gradually showed Brandeis he could lobby effectively at little personal cost Rather. Frankfurter's teaching came from Brandeis himself, and that revelation is what marks The Brandeis Frankfurter Connection as an excellent piece of historical research...
...book. From that telltale bit of evidence, we learn that Shawn believes that this book "may someday be looked back upon as a crucial event in the history of human thought." An editor in such awe of what his author and protege has produced is likely to wield a very light pencil. And it shows...
...adherents provided the most dramatic show of students influence in several years. All students concerned with Harvard policies--on and off campus--should take note of their triumph. It suggests that, despite the present impotence of student government and the frequent intransigence of the administration, students can still wield influence on real issues by daring to go outside the system...
...result of two years of U.S. pressure on the corruption-riddled regime of General Policarpo Paz García. Though still in its fragile infancy, Honduran democracy can serve the region as a salutary model of popular government, and an example of the positive leverage that Washington can wield under the right conditions...
Democrats in both houses, on the other hand, fear that the President would wield his veto power if they pushed an alternative of their own. "I went through that drill last year," recalls Illinois' Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who had proposed a Democratic substitute for Reagan's tax cuts. "I came away unbowed but a little bloody. I can't move anything in the Congress." Democrats find themselves in an ambiguous political position. Most believe that Reagan's budget makes no economic sense and will severely prolong or even deepen...