Word: powers
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...family lived in South Carolina, traveled to Boston in the summers, and "colored boy" was a polite way of saying "Negroes" or worse in that era. I had no way of knowing how awesome the hitting power of the Red Sox lineup was in the post World War II years...
...military could track an incoming nuclear missile but could do nothing to stop it. Fitzgerald writes: "[The story] resonates with Biblical and mythological overtones... Reagan can be seen as the innocent, the American Everyman who on the eve of his election must undergo initiation into the terrible secrets of power. Led into the 'granite core' of a mountain - into the innermost sanctum of esoteric knowledge - he looks for the first time upon the horror that scientists and their masters have created for the country and for humankind." And so: "Reagan cuts through the arcane and dangerous knowledge with pure common...
When Leland Stanford founded his university in 1885, California was caught up in the frontier, in the prime of the Gold Rush. Now, Stanford University is caught up in a new Gold Rush--the Internet era that may have the power to push Stanford above its peer schools and into serious contention with Harvard...
...white farmers as "our enemies, not just political enemies, but definite enemies in wanting to reverse our revolution and our independence." Mugabe's remarks, which come amid rising tensions brought on by the land invasions his government initiated after losing a February referendum that would have given him the power to seize white-owned farms without compensation, are likely to inflame an already volatile situation...
...easy, of course, for those in power to - as President Clinton did in Seattle last December - agree wholeheartedly with the concerns of the demonstrators, and then simply continue business as usual. This time, the President remained discreetly out of town, and his treasury secretary, Larry Summers, met with representatives of a number of non-governmental organizations before the weekend to underline the administration's efforts to bring the citizenry in on the discussion. But with both leading presidential candidates being free-trade boosters and Pat Buchanan's conservatism making him politically unpalatable to the bulk of the protesters despite...