Word: powers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...while it's important to recognize the power of the "latest thing," it's disastrous to allow the desire for that power to blind the inevitability of its flaws. What happened in American society over the last few years is that the staggering success of Internet made navigating Wall Street look and feel deceptively easy. Suddenly, everyone could tap into the Dream; fiscal novices flocked without pause into the esoteric world of business. And when it was good, it was very, very good...
Prior to the start of this season, fifth year Harvard Coach Joe Walsh suggested that this year's baseball team would produce runs with more power, rather than its traditional nickel-and-dime approach to manufacturing runs...
Also contested was a plan to give the council some of the power to select delegates to conferences--a power which is currently held...
...influence of contributions becomes even more pernicious given the power Texas judges have over the appointment of counsel. Unlike many states, Texas does not have a state public defender's office; instead, courts appoint individual lawyers to take the cases of defendants too poor to pay themselves. These courts have been widely accused of appointing inept, inexperienced or indifferent lawyers to the demanding task of criminal defense, a practice that is especially worrisome in capital cases where the client's life is at stake. Judges also have the power to decide how much the appointees, including campaign contributors, will...
...While there is almost unanimous agreement both on the streets and in the corridors of power on the need for changes, there are widely divergent ideas of what should be changed...