Word: wield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Artist as Citizen is a very serious question indeed, for in this age of brainless mass culture and its sheeplike world devotees, it is the artists (or so they would like to be known) who draw larger crowds and wield greater influence with the public than Secretaries of State and Nobel laureates. Their sexual hijinks, their fashion statements, their political causes and their illegitimate children are what keep our economy trucking along...
Copywriters, proof-readers and editors who write headlines can wield as much power as the reporters who actually research and write stories, concluded participants in a Saturday conference at Harvard Medical School...
...have 435 Congressmen and 100 Senators each forcing the government to keep open another unnecessary hospital or sleepy agency office or subsidy program for well-to-do ranchers. Like other voters around the country, Foley's constituents are questioning whether their Congressman's three-decade struggle to win and wield influence in the nation's capital has torn him out of touch with the folks back home, folks who say they care as much about the debt they're leaving to their children as about how many federal dollars are spent in their state...
That's the kind of flinty performance that makes Albright the steadiest and clearest voice on the Clinton foreign-affairs team. Her willingness to wield the big stick whenever the President needs to make a point, in contrast with the painful hedging often employed by Secretary of State Warren Christopher, has put her on the Washington gossip circle's short list of candidates for the Secretary's job if he is pushed into retirement after the midterm elections. "She is hot around here," says an Administration official. "A star," says another. "A crown jewel," chimes a third...
...gubernatorial elections with a kind of desperate optimism. "We still win Texas, Florida and New York," predicts an official. Do the polls suggest otherwise? Well, he explains, "Governors' races are extremely volatile." Even he excludes California, effectively writing off Kathleen Brown and whatever influence a Democratic Governor would wield over the state's 54 electoral votes. Beyond Pennsylvania Avenue, however, more objective handicappers offer a different morning line: If Clinton wins any of the big states in '96, they say, he will do so despite their Governors, not because of them...