Word: wielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some universal spirit, and over three quarters believing that God listens to their prayers. Depending on the estimate, 80 to 90 percent of Americans are Christian, with a similar percentage of seats in Congress and state legislatures belonging to Christians. Yet the anti-religious liberals apparently continue to wield incredible authoritarian power over the embattled religionists...
Happily, small business is an aspect of the economy in which women do wield power. In the U.S. nearly as many people work for women-owned businesses as are employed by FORTUNE 500 companies worldwide. Small businesses are often founded by women who have left corporations because they felt that the glass ceiling was impeding their progress...
Probably it helped that unlike so many would-be power brokers, Rozelle did not look like a man who wished to wield power. Of course the gifts required to pull this off aren't the ones normally associated with empire building. They are to a large extent the gifts of a diplomat. Diplomat in this case is another word for a man with a talent for dealing with megalomaniacs. Each year that Rozelle presided over the NFL, another owner published his autobiography explaining how he was the visionary behind the rise of pro football. Each year Rozelle laughed...
...years as the undisputed ruler of Indonesia, Suharto did not suppress memory as much as wield it like a weapon. His "New Order," he declared, had brought stability to an archipelago that was less a nation than a factory for political chaos, full of secessionists, radical Muslims, communists and renegade soldiers fomenting catastrophe. But in a swirl of the very disorder he claimed to have dispelled, Suharto was forced last May to relinquish power to a trusted disciple, B.J. Habibie. Even that move could not stem the unrest, and after six months of political tension and economic hardship, chaos...
...have lately complained that during preparations for the Starr report, they were unable to find Conyers at scheduled meeting times. His waywardness so concerned minority leader Richard Gephardt that he handpicked Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell to be the Democrats' lead counsel on the Judiciary Committee, with the intent to wield influence over the proceedings through Lowell...