Word: exert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of specialized, non-physical sports, however, such as riflery and sailing, do not exert the same athletic effort as does a football player. Thus they do not deserve the same recognition. These presently minor sports would have to forfeit this status and remain organized as clubs. Already several actual sports, such as cricket and rugby, are, because of their limited nature, only clubs. In return for this sacrifice, the H.A.A. should continue its services to these activities, such as scheduling their meets. The physical sports which are still "minor" should in turn raise their letter-awarding requirements to equal...
...financial success. Calling attention to the increasing dependence by universities on "government and business for the sustenance they must have to keep alive," he warned, nevertheless, that educational institutions must transcend their environment so that they may be critics of it. Industry, he held, should not attempt to exert control over educational policies, no matter what its financial contribution...
...universities. Nevertheless, underlying much of it, is the assumption that the general education provided by the independent liberal arts university is only a means to industry's financial well-being. There is a latent danger in this assumption, as Mr. Pusey has recognized, that business will begin to exert control over university policies. Such attempts are not unknown; often in the past wealthy alumni have attempted to mold educational policy. With greater university dependence today on corporation gifts, the threat of similar attempts grows. Already business is exerting an unexpressed, but very real pressure on colleges. Mr. Pusey...
From the change in government, the West can probably expect an increase in Russian heavy industry, and a corresponding drive by the Communist Party to exert more pressure on the Russian peasantry, Shulman stated. He did not think that this necessarily indicated any immediate change in Russian foreign policy...
...Because of the dispersion of the force's ships and the range of its weapons, such a carrier force could exert a tight and exclusive control over an area of 60,000 square miles-the six New England states rearranged into a circle 275 miles in diameter . . . Nuclear warheads would be available for missiles fired against large bomber formations . . . Nuclear anti-submarine weapons would be available...