Word: wield
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...Angeles Lakers, resigned today after failing to capture a championship ring in four seasons with the New York Knicks. Riley turned down a $15 million contract extension in part, says TIME sports writer Steve Wulf, because Knicks management would not give him the control he wanted to wield over the composition of the team...
While that question produces hot debate in the public arena, gun-rights advocates know better than to wield the Second Amendment in court. No federal gun-control law has ever been struck down on Second Amendment grounds. "The Second Amendment's preamble makes it clear," explains Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, "that it is not designed to create an individual right to bear arms outside of the context of a state-run militia." As a consequence, Congress has been free to limit gun ownership and sales...
Likewise, hockey players are always at risk of taking a puck or an inadvertent stick to the face. Some players are careless, and other are sly enough to wield their cutlery in others' faces when the referee isn't looking...
...perfect example of the nasty effects of conservatism on Black America. High ranking Republican officials have admitted that this Contract offers little for Blacks, but it is far more damaging than they will concede. The Contract is a brutal legislative club that House Republicans would like to wield against some of America's most marginalized communities. The Contract calls for cuts in benefits to the poor, and while Blacks make up 12 percent of America, they make up 30 percent of the poor. Therefore, Blacks will feel the brunt of these spending cuts, which target welfare, food stamps and even...
...access to tertiary education, a necessity in today's world, in the stranglehold of the chosen few who wield this enormous power in fashioning America's managerial class...