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If Slate wants to be an alternative to the mass of media, why let the mass of media (in low or high cultures) dictate the terms?
But the WP , NYT and LAT note that Clinton avoided the appearance of trying to dictate interest rate policy to the Fed.
Now that Bradley has made it a race, Gore wants to dictate the pace of the campaign.
This is not, I suspect, their fault: The economics of newspapers and the tastes of readers more or less dictate that a columnist has to appear at least twice, and preferably three times, each week.
As discussed in the previous section on risk analysis, the central security groups served primarily as advisers or consultants to the business units, and, thus, they generally did not have the ability to independently dictate information security practices.