Word: controller
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Ratliff's philosophy doesn't vary much either--his preoccupations include the environment, arms control and civil liberties, but he also has a strong nostalgic bent, recommending regularly the pastoral virtues perhaps closer to his San Antonio birthplace than his current inner-city home. The child of a Methodist minister, the grandson of a circuit-riding preacher, Ratliff says he was exposed early to the fight for social justice--"back in the '30s, my parents always voted the straight Socialist ticket, and they pioneered in trying to get the whites and Blacks to work together," a task Ratliff...
While most of the 5914 people in the stands (about one of every 14 seats was occupied) wavered between delerium and surprise, Harvard had one chance to regroup before the situation got totally out of control...
After receiving my issue of TIME and finding the Essay entitled "The Global First Amendment War" almost completely censored with thick, black ink, I must agree with one of the few lines I was able to read: "Their [developing countries'] governments are, and have long been, in firm control...
Moreover, Reagan carried Republicans to victory-or perhaps Carter dragged Democrats to defeat-around the country. The Republicans took control of the Senate for the first time in 26 years and made substantial gains in the House, creating more conservative chambers for the Reagan Administration and knocking out of office some key Democratic stalwarts. The voters who cast their ballots for a President-elect who has pledged to reverse the tone and direction that have prevailed in Washington for almost half a century also retired such noted liberal Democratic Senators as Birch Bayh in Indiana, George McGovern in South Dakota...
Against North Colorado, the Crimson was pretty much in control from the start, relying mainly on team speed to outduel the Colorado-ites...