Word: wield
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reviewing a play, passing judgement on the creative output of others, a critic implies that his taste and opinion are valuable tools of measure. All critics must earn that power they wield: by the time they put in, the quality of their writing, their committment to good theater, their sensitivity and discretion...
Neoconservatives, though few in number, wield influence by providing a modern, intellectual gloss to free-market arguments. Generally, they backed Reagan. Yet now, one of their leading advocates, Irving Kristol, decries the "intellectual vacuum within the Republican Party" and predicts a "decade of continuous frustration" for the movement...
Television is one of those peculiar institutions (professional sports is another) where the underlings often wield more clout than their bosses. The faces onscreen, after all, are what count for the audience, not the faceless executives who ostensibly hire and fire them. David Burke, president of CBS News, found that out the hard way, when he suspended 60 Minutes commentator Andy Rooney last month for allegedly making offensive remarks about blacks and homosexuals. The uproar over the suspension was instant and unrelenting. Thousands of complaints from viewers poured in to CBS. Press critics chided the network for trampling on Rooney...
...event was rather tame. There was even some speculation that the Communist government had fomented the trouble to spread fear of disorder. Nonetheless, the sacking of Stasi headquarters epitomized a rising impatience with the pace of change in several East European countries. Increasingly aware of the strength they can wield in open demonstrations, many East Germans, Rumanians and Bulgarians seem to be growing more restive, more insistent in their demands. Their sights are often set, as they were in East Berlin, on the efforts of Communist officeholders to cling to their old jobs, or to any jobs. Yet the protesters...
Another area in which Harvard often attempts to wield its influence relates to its real estate holdings. Although most land-use laws are enacted at the municipal level, state actions can often create difficult legal snags for the University, Casey says...