Word: wield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shelves sag with Marxist thought, corners devoted to the master, Engels, Lenin, even Stalin. A chart on the wall, querying, "How Many Hands Wield the Revolutionary Worker?" chronicles the number of party newspapers sold each week. And Revolution Books, just outside Central Square, serves as local headquarters for the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). The press conference is conducted from two sofas and a couple of chairs in the middle of the bookstore. A press conference without press, save one Harvard Crimson reporter, and he looks bored. To interest him, a local party publicist reads some statements of support...
...less rapidly than at present). Savings: a minimum of $13 billion next fiscal year, $64 billion to $92 billion in 1985. This would be accomplished, says Reagan, primarily by ending "waste, extravagance, abuse and outright fraud in federal agencies and programs." He gave no examples of how he would wield the knife, nor did he promise to ax any programs outright-not even social welfare projects he has inveighed against in the past. The hold-down would be achieved despite an increase of at least 5% a year, adjusted for inflation, in military spending that Reagan contends is needed...
...tasks previously done by workmen. A spot welding unit can cost $60,000, but operating expenses run only $6 an hour. By contrast, an average assembly-line worker earns $17 per hour in wages and benefits. Programmed by computer, the robots' hooklike hands lift heavy steel parts and wield...
...make things work in England. Its protagonist, Lewis Eliot, follows a path very similar to Snow's; he rises from humble origins to prominence in the fields of science, education and government. He is both a participant in important decisions and a careful observer of those who wield and seek influence. Snow's abiding interest in such industrious achievers left him well behind modernism; he wrote about men in public roles at a time when most serious fiction was burrowing ever deeper down the rabbit hole of self. Critics complained, irrelevantly, that Snow was not Proust and, accurately...
...party man, not an agency professional. His most notable previous post: Soviet Ambassador in Budapest, where he helped put down the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Among Andropov's most important functions is to keep the KGB under firm party control so that the secret police can never again wield the power it possessed under Stalin, when it arrested, tortured and killed thousands of loyal party officials...