Word: wield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when Knight-Ridder told workers striking at its Philadelphia Daily News that it might shut down the tabloid, it had credibility. Nine out of 10 of that paper's striking unions reached tentative agreements with their corporate parent last week to reconcile huge downsizing. When corporations wield such cold power that they can unite with each other to face down their workers, you know that a capitalist conspiracy is in our midst...
...serving merely as the cash cows of a third party--as were Frank Munsey and George Perkins in Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party. Instead, ambitious tycoons can actually run themselves, as third-party candidates for president. And even if they aren't able to win elections, they can wield significant influence over the substance of the new administration's policy agenda. Many egos are simply too large to pass up such an attractive prospect...
...credible voice on these issues." That, of course, was PUCC's point at the outset. Only a representative council that places itself at the heart of campus debate over these issues--not dictating positions to students, but providing a venue for the articulation of interests and concerns--can wield a credible voice. We want to create such an Undergraduate Council, and believe that Harvard's students deserve no less...
...party-line votes, both the House and Senate adopted the Republican seven-year balanced-budget plan that would slash spending by nearly $1 trillion and taxes by $245 billion. President Clinton warned that he would wield his veto power in the months ahead to refashion the spending and tax bills that will be required to implement the plan, which only sets budgetary outlines. In other budget matters, a $16.4 billion package of cuts in the current year's budget-originally vetoed by the President but since modified by Republicans to obtain his support-was stalled just before the July...
...some violence themselves.) Nineteen-year-old Tarja Krehic from Bosnia told the others about the mysterious onset of evil in her neighborhood: "Hate came, I don't know from where." A 19-year-old from Kenya, Kim Muhota, reported that in the streets of Nairobi, children are known to wield discarded hypodermic needles (carrying God knows what viruses of doom) and threaten to jab passersby unless given money-the needles becoming grotesquely miniaturized moral inversions of the St. George lance...