Word: exert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...segment of university students developed their own style, their own content, their own leadership in an effort to exert an impact on the whole society. Instead of "student chapters" of off-campus movements, the center of activity was on the campus itself. This...
...rule. What killed it during the last session and may smother it again this year is public indifference. A few national organizations--the AFL-CIO, ADA, and the League of Women Voters--lobbied for home rule, but not vigorously. Except for the NAACP, the national Negro organizations did not exert grass-roots pressure...
...Acceptance Scale and higher on the Anxiety Scale. There was also an interesting difference on the Expected Control Scale of the FIRO. This test is designed to measure factors in interpersonal relationships or interpersonal needs. Expected control assesses the extent to which the individual anticipates he can and will exert control over others. To that extent, a low score represents some feeling of a lack of effectiveness in dealing with others...
...strong economic and cultural ties as the French retain in that area. Nor were we participants of the Geneva Convention that constructed the peace set-up in 1954 for Southeastern Asia. We have a relationship with Communist China, but it is not so close as to permit us to exert any influence upon them. We have a good relationship with the Soviet Union, but not as close as our American one. Though Japan is frequently cited as a major power in Asia, with the exception of some limited influence on Indonesia, we have no substanital political sway over Asian countries...
...also excoriated the U.S. for selling arms to Israel and accused Washington of "waging a war of starvation against the Egyptian people" by withholding shipments of surplus American wheat. What is more, he hinted broadly that Egypt henceforth might refuse to pay its foreign-aid debts to "those who exert economic pressure on us"-meaning the U.S. "Those who want to collect their loans will have to run after us, asking for payment...