Word: exert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after remaining aloof from the crisis during its early days, Kissinger spent much of the weekend after the invasion talking on the overseas telephone to London and Paris as well as Athens and Ankara, helping to arrange the ceasefire. With his active intervention the Western alliance was able to exert considerable pressure on Turkey and Greece, both NATO allies, to stop fighting each other...
...many of Heilbroner's ideas outlined here sound like the mere prattlings of a paranoid glossed over with the verbiage of radical chic; all issues you've studied or read of before. But when they're brought together they take on a new seriousness. Population explosions will exert pressures on both socialist and capitalist nations alike, the inevitable competition for dwindling resources will cause wars of "preemptive seizure" that will eventually lead to an extreme dichotomy between rich and poor countries. Capitalism and socialism will both have to deal with a stagnant industrial production, and the latter will probably fare...
Robert L. Hartley, 36, may exert more influence on U.S. businessmen than any other journalist. He is editor of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, an operation regarded as being separate from the rest of the paper. Born in Marshall, Minn., and educated at Iowa State and Wisconsin, Bartley became a Journal staffer in 1962. After ten years of reporting, writing editorials and turning out think pieces for the editorial page, he was tapped for his present post. The Journal's editorials generally reflect Bartley's economic conservatism but are less predictable than in previous years...
THAT THE CASE was reopened at all testifies to the hold it continues to exert on people's minds--along with a continuing stream of magazine articles and books on the subject, which some people presumably read. There are limits, naturally. Associated Press releases generally say that four students "were killed" after National Guardsmen "were sent" on campus, suggesting that both events were acts of God which no one else could possibly be held responsible for. Similarly, the new grand jury naturally investigated the individual Guardsmen who fired shots, not the people--President Nixon, Spiro T. Agnew, Governor Rhodes...
...movie industry in the '30s. They cause people who would not otherwise pay attention to the form to do so. But as with the old films, so with TV movies: the quick, deft westerns, mysteries and action melodramas that depend on well-established conventions may in the end exert a larger claim on our attention than their more pretentiously publicized rivals...