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For one, the FDA does not have authority over the catch-all of “ultra-processed foods”, several former officials told the BBC.

From BBC

For Williams, the Sisterhood, which eventually becomes the Bene Gesserit, reveals how difficult it is to allow women to have authority.

Her boss, President Joe Biden, does have authority under the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act to intervene in mass work stoppages that could lead to a national emergency, if the situation is so deemed; that power was last invoked by President George W. Bush, who sued to break the West Coast dockworkers strike in late 2002 after a punishing stock-market downturn.

From Slate

“They do not have authority to dictate our national energy policy,” Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said in statement Thursday announcing the 19-state lawsuit.

But though Mr. Sinwar does not technically have authority over the entire Hamas movement, his leadership role in Gaza and his forceful personality have given him outsize importance in how Hamas operates, according to allies and foes alike.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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