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...take issue with your premise that medical societies' officers may wield power of life or death over the average patient by deciding whether his personal physician or surgeon can admit patients to the best local hospitals and treat them there...
...corporation is a modern leviathan that has greater impact upon the lives and fortunes of Americans than any other force outside Government. The 500 largest U.S. corporations embrace nearly two-thirds of all nonagricultural economic activity, employ one in every seven U.S. workers, wield massive economic power over the whole U.S. economy. How are corporations using that power? What problems has it created...
...orderliness, still precarious, is the accomplishment of President Romulo Betancourt, 51, the veteran politician who led Socialist-minded Acción Democrática (A.D.) to victory over a Communist-backed coalition at the polls. Betancourt must still walk a line between the Communists, who wield ominous power with the Caracas street mobs, and the armed forces, intact and distrustful of both A.D. and the Reds...
Noting the influence the AEC and Defense Department wield for continuing the tests, Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry, bemoaned the fact there is almost no "peace lobby" in the United States...
Since Snowball and Green Eyes are under lock and key, it cannot be physical, but spiritual authority that they wield. This spiritual authority stems from their criminality: Green Eyes' cellmate Lefranc, trying to build up Snowball at the expense of Green Eyes, caps his description of Snowball with "... his crimes! Compared to them, those of Green Eyes..." And Green Eyes, unready yet to concede the supremacy of Snowball, answers, "I don't know anything about his crimes...