Word: wielding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...upon that country for continued support. Japan has bought up Western banks and corporations, making its mark in the private sector. Even state governments are clamoring for the investment of what is now the world's foremost economic power. Japan does not simply control lands and stocks; it can wield its financial control to influence American policy...
Despite the flood of anti-union literature issued by Harvard, despite the anti-union meetings, the administration failed to wield the critical weapons at its command--leaving top officials, supervisors and legal tactics out of the fray...
THAT left Dukakis, the clean and simple candidate. He didn't run on any issues, nor did he wield the eloquence or sharpness of his competitors. He said he was pro-Israel, but refused to commit to specific plan for peace. He promised to recreate the Massachusetts Miracle nationwide, but failed to outline fiscal reforms beyond more stringent tax collection. Instead, he "stayed above the political strife" and presented himself as the only competent candidate with no outstanding faults...
First, responsible criticism knocks the wind out of irresponsible criticism, especially those who liken Israeli soldiers shooting back at rock-throwing Palestinians to Nazis in extermination camps. Martin Peretz, editor in chief of the New Republic, suggests that those who wield corrupt analogies of Jews to Nazis seek to expel the Holocaust from memory by diminishing its significance. That alone would justify our straight talk...
...cartel, which supplies 80% of the world's cocaine, has come to be recognized as a law unto itself. Its vast financial resources and revenues, which run to the billions, have enabled the cocaine lords to wield immense political power. "Drug money has contaminated the whole system," says Colonel Orlando Pena Angarita, commander of Colombia's investigative police force. "There isn't anywhere that is clean anymore." Reflecting the concern, an antidrug program unveiled in January by Colombia's President, Virgilio Barco Vargas, is called "Decree for the Defense of Democracy...