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...director of the White House Office of Communications, was nominated to a seven-year term on the Federal Communications Commission. The President replaced her with David Gergen, 34, a former Nixon speechwriter and highly regarded special counsel to Ford, and made it clear that the Office of Communications would wield considerably more power; it is expected to grow from half a dozen professional staffers to as many...
...Pinheiro de Azevedo (14.4%) and the Communist standard-bearer Octavio Pato (7.6%). Although Eanes' victory was less a personal triumph than a vote of confidence in the three non-Communist parties that backed him-the Socialists, Popular Democrats and conservative Center Social Democrats-the general is expected to wield his new authority forcefully...
...Plymouth home of Mercy and her husband James Warren, who is now serving as president of Massachusetts' Provincial Congress, has been a meeting place for such leaders as Samuel and John Adams. An enthusiastic admirer of Mrs. Warren's satires, John Adams has encouraged her to wield her pen freely and "let the censure fall where it will...
...fiscal policy no longer seem applicable. Global corporations have created off-shore banks which allow them to control their own credit supplies, thereby subverting the efforts of the Federal Reserve System to regulate the economy through control over the money supply. Similarly, the corporations have been able to wield the same weapon against U.S. fiscal policy as they have against those of Latin American governments: "transfer prices" (the manipulation of internal transactions to minimize taxable income) and "tax havens" (bases of operations in low tax areas), not to mention political influence to preserve attractive loopholes in legislation...
...women feel themselves invested or become invested with the right to rule over others and punish them if they do not obey. Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president...I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon." As a journalist and writer, you wield a very real power, and I think you understand that...