According to college folklore, a well turned essay has the power to seduce an admissions committee.

根据大学里的民间传说，一篇优秀的文章能够吸引招生委员会。

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But the editor doesn’t quite have absolute power: an invitation-only steering committee can impeach him in the unlikely event of a Strangelove scenario.

其实编辑也并非拥有绝对的权力：一个仅由受邀人员组成的指导委员会可以质疑编辑的偏执做法。

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It suggests an executive committee with the power to reshape the panel's plans and respond to criticism.

它建议成立一个执行委员会，拥有重塑小组计划以及应付批评的权利。

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Environment groups who have long bemoaned the slow pace of development on wave and tidal power endorsed the committee's recommendations.

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They had the power to overrule the committee, and in the process destroy it, and they did.

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And I suspect that, having realised the power it wields, committee places and perhaps even the chair will be hotly contested.

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