Word: powers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...back on Morris, who wanted Clinton to sign on to a budget bill that would have cut Medicare and other popular programs. Arguing against a deal, Gore predicted the government shutdown and convinced Clinton it would play into his hands. Gore, who wrote his college thesis about how the power of television gives the President an edge over Congress, even coached the President on exploiting the media. "Gore was the only one in the White House who saw all the way through to the endgame and got everything right," says a former Clinton aide. "Side with the Republicans, even...
...patients were thrust into freezing cold baths is enough to chill the blood. The play also discusses the plight of women, which is no coincidence as director Miriam R. Asnes '02 is a women's studies concentrator. Mary Girard, like many women of her time, was legally under the power of her husband. It was under his orders, not a doctor's, that she was confined. Brydie L. Andrews '01 gives a powerful performance as Mary Girard, showing us the strength of a woman in untenable circumstances. Although she is defenseless against the will of her husband, she is never...
...power of her husband, this production's Stephen Girard (Jesse M. Shapiro '01) does not come across as the richest and most powerful man in the fledging United States, nor does he appear to be the intimidating abuser of his trophy wife. Shapiro, originally the assistant producer, does not yet have the presence required by the role, but I have faith that by opening night he will have gained the missing elements of the character. After all, anyone who has been in a production knows that things often come together in the last week of rehearsal. Similar improvement...
...very reason that its payment is a community responsibility, the termbill must not be taken out of the hands of the community of students to determine. The council cannot pretend to exercise this kind of representative power; the students have not endowed it so and did not vote for their representatives with such issues in mind. I believe a termbill hike would be a good thing, and I believe that the council deserves the ability to raise the fee along with inflation--but I do not believe that to assume such powers without student input through a referendum would...
...ruling only affects "state-related" colleges and universities in Pennsylvania. As such, it will have no effect on Harvard graduate students: Only the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has the power to grant union rights to students at private universities...