Word: exert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jerusalem has an understandable worry. The Nazareth election could encourage Israel's 400,000 Arab citizens (12% of the total population), who are now fragmented among several Jewish-led parties, to gather together in a single political organization and thus possibly exert real power at the polls for the first time. With this prospect in mind, some unhappy officials in Jerusalem are already pondering the question in St. John in the New Testament: "Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth...
...line canceled all flights through Christmas Eve. Other members of the Board of Economists, while granting that there is danger of a wage-price spiral, think it can be avoided. Some reasons: unemployment will still be high next year; low increases for state, local and Federal Government workers will exert a moderating influence on industrial wages; and rising productivity will enable manufacturers to pay higher wages without boosting prices...
Sources at the Business School say that Lawrence E. Fouraker, dean of the school, was concerned about the amount of time professors were spending away from academic work. "Fouraker was upset," a source said, "and started to exert pressure on certain professors to stay around Cambridge more." Salmon, however, denies that time spent away has become a problem. "As long as it is an average of only 20 days a year," he says, "and loyalty remains to the Business School, there is no conflict." Salmon adds that the School even encourages outside work on the grounds that it is often...
Subjective elements, both personal and professional in character, probably did exert a significant influence on the departmental decision. But we are not prepared to assert that Dr. Hartman's academic freedom as traditionally defined, was violated. Nor are we prepared to assert that the objective reasons for their decisions, stated by Professors Nash and Vigier and by Dean Kilbridge, involved with teaching, research and scholarship, were not sufficient to explain, to justify and to determine the outcome of their decisions. This is not an uncommon situation...
...role the way a sports champion retires a trophy. He does not, of course, get permanent possession of the part, but he does get a lasting grip on playgoers' memories and critics' yardsticks. His successors must always suffer the ordeal of comparison. Even long-dead actors exert their possessive prerogatives. Praise a present Hamlet and some oldtimer will tell you that "Barrymore was the greatest." In Twelfth Night, Brian Bedford retkes the Malvolio...