Word: wield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the best weapon she could wield against the growing Communist threat would be an improved economy. As it is, her presence and her free enterprise policies have already restored a little business confidence. As capital outflow has all but halted, hard-currency reserves, down to only $200 million in February, are now back to $2 billion. Yet the economy is still in desperate shape and dependent upon outside aid, especially from the U.S. In Manila, more than one in every two people does not have a full-time job, and in the countryside, four children in every five...
...most popular traditions in Western political philosophy are inadequate to justify the authority governments wield over individuals, German philosopher Jurgen Habermas asserted in the second and last of the annual Tanner lectures last night in Sanders Theater...
...some think that Harvard holds itself superior to the outside world, most would agree that a certain elitism also exists within Harvard's ivycovered walls. But the Eastern Establishment does not wield quite as much power as it did in the past...
...experiences, will follow three characters -- the police lieutenant, a rising young mobster (Anthony Denison) and a lawyer (Stephen Lang) -- over a period of nearly two decades. The two-hour premiere, set in 1962, is in many ways a throwback. The cops wear black trench coats and fedoras and wield their pistols with one hand, cowboy-style, rather than by Hill Street's two-handed method. The Mob characters seem to predate The Godfather, and nobody has heard of drugs. Most of the crimes are, quaintly, jewelry heists...
...some think that Harvard holds itself superior to the outside world, most would agree that a certain elitism also exists within Harvard's ivy-covered walls. But the Eastern Establishment does not wield quite as much power as it did in the past...