Word: exert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand, the Director of the Program may be able to exert a subtle direction over the loan policies of colleges. On the other, colleges will be tempted to apply political pressure on the Director through Congressmen and the like. In this case, the well-established institutions would probably be able to bring most pressure, thus penalizing the colleges that really need the money most...
Members of the sophomore Bicker Committee revealed that about 10 or 11 men have received no bids at all, while another 20 have only second-list bids. These sophomores might be able to get into a club if their friends with first-list bids can exert enough pressure on the club Bicker committees. For these men, and for those who are helping them, the last two days have constituted a period of frantic negotiations...
...power game, Bowles believes that a nation must acknowledge its own limitations to exert power and recognize that firmness is not in itself a policy but a part of a policy. Expending force in a moral vacuum is like chasing butteries in the jungle: you soon stumble in your haste to capture an ever elusive object. In the power game, furthermore, the rules require those players whose stakes are only power to play with partners who likewise seek or possess power. And this leads to the United States' forming alliances with reactionary, undemocratic governments whose position of authority is supported...
...Mills' estimation, no balance of terror is possible. He directs his plea not so much to the military or the politicans, but to the intellectuals. Mills thinks that the intellectuals, if they exert their capacities politically, can be more powerful than at anytime in world history. He implores American intellectuals to devise programs enabling us to compete in the industrialization of the underdeveloped countries of the World. Industrialization is the master theme of our time, but we have failed to export our capitalistic system to Africa and Asia. Moreover, he warns, "the continued attempt by the U.S.A. to defend...
Could a splurge in car buying put strong pressure on raw material prices? Says Norman B. Ture, staff economist of the Joint Economic Committee: "I don't see it. Say autos go up to 6,000,000. That won't be enough to exert real pressure on steel, aluminum, glass or rubber capacity. So a good strong demand in autos will not spread great demand pressures through the economy." And just as there are ample materials, so is there still an ample labor supply to keep a brake on wages...