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Ehud Barak, who took office Tuesday as Israel's new prime minister, was heralded Wednesday in the Jerusalem Post as the country's most powerful leader since the old days of Labor Party dominance, which ended two decades ago.
But this economy seems so strong that the danger of having the boom killed by inflation--which would eventually lead to very sharp interest-rate hikes-- feels more powerful than the danger of having the boom killed by a slowdown.
No movie in the last decade has succeeded in psyching out critics and audiences as fully as the powerful, rambling war epic The Thin Red Line , Terrence Malick's return to cinema after 20 years.
Labor, notes Al Hunt ( Capital Gang ), is still a powerful organizing tool in Iowa.
President Richard Nixon then concentrated policy planning and policy coordination in a powerful National Security Council staff, overseen by Henry Kissinger.