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The Senate, by happenstance rather than design, has evolved into what Jonathan Chait aptly terms “the most powerful source of institutional racism in American life.”
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The Paleogene began with the detonation of an asteroid a billion times more powerful than a nuclear bomb, wiping out 75 percent of all plants and animals on the planet.
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Clearly, it’s a powerful way to help rescue restaurants and bars.
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This summer Honeywell revealed a quantum computer that it claimed was more powerful than any other, as measured by an IBM’s own preferred quantum volume metric.
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Then I carefully opened the trap and watched as the mole used its powerful front legs—as if doing a breaststroke—to burrow down into the leaves and dirt, disappearing in only a few seconds.
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Slowing or stopping that nasal invasion might ultimately be powerful enough to change the course of the pandemic, some scientists suspect.
TREATMENTS THAT TARGET THE CORONAVIRUS IN THE NOSE MIGHT HELP PREVENT COVID-19LAURA SANDERSSEPTEMBER 14, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
In principle, corporations can commit to purposes beyond profit and their stakeholders, but only if their powerful investors allow them to do so.
50 YEARS LATER, MILTON FRIEDMAN’S SHAREHOLDER DOCTRINE IS DEADJAKEMETHSEPTEMBER 13, 2020FORTUNE
They’ve even enlisted biology’s most powerful theory, Darwinian evolution, in the search.
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Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
European tobacco is lacking in flavor and is less powerful than the tobacco of America.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.
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