Word: controller
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...International Olympic Committee has long had a reputation as a tenacious defender of its brand. In 1981 the IOC even managed to get an international treaty granting global control of its ubiquitous five-ring logo. But the greybeards who run the committee were caught napping by the age of the Internet. Olympic.com was snapped up by a reputable U.S. paint company of that name, so the IOC lumbers on with the less catchy olympic.org (Although official sponsor IBM did snag olympics.com for this year's Sydney Games site...
...alternative to the Democrat and Republican parties can emerge in national politics so long as those parties control our access to political discourse via debates...
...site, which focuses on the history and culture of African peoples throughout the world, will remain commercial-free and Gates, Appiah and their staff will retain editorial control for a period of five years...
...with my fellow undergrads that lot of Harvard students want to join the top dogs of law enforcement. Even Harvard students who wouldn't dream of owning a gun see the nation's leading law enforcement agency as having a special aura of power. A lot of us are control freaks. The ultimate level of control is when you are the law. That, in most people's minds, means...
...starkest evidence that we are living on short rations came in recent days with the events of Ratgate. Journalists who should have known better - and would have, if there were any controlling grown-up authority on the National Desk, any intelligent superego left to say, "Spike it, it's a phony" - worked themselves into a state about the idea that the Bush people had commissioned a campaign ad containing the word "RATS," subliminally flashed on the screen in the midst of a discussion of "bureaucRATS" or? "DemocRATS."? The diabolical idea (a brainwashing trick that the GOP's mind-control people...