Word: exert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wife Imelda and their friends have used their power to plunder the Philippines, thereby aggravating the country's economic plight. Opposition Candidate Corazon Aquino played on the issue last week, promising a thorough investigation of the Marcos family's financial dealings if she wins. "The new leadership will exert all efforts to eliminate the social cancer of graft and corruption," she declared. "What belongs to the people will be given back to the people...
...respectable offices. So enamored are most Filipinos of Western culture that the Communists have had to find a justification for "bourgeois pleasures." Argued an article in the Communist youth magazine Collegian Folio: "Boy George and break dancing . . . are minor questions in the category of fads that do not exert deep and long-lasting influences...
Like the heated gases bursting from a jet engine, the departing cometary ! molecules exert a force on the icy nucleus, giving the comet its independent thrust. But because the ice does not vaporize uniformly and the nucleus rotates, the jet action propels the comet in many directions and can either accelerate or decelerate it. Apparently this accounts for the nongravitational motions that astronomers had previously observed. After 35 years of scrutiny, Whipple's model of comet properties is still accepted today. "When I first realized about the jet action of comets," says the 79-year-old astronomer, "Boy! That...
...that still exists within the party despite Deng's success in moving China away from Maoism. At the closing session, Deng chose to appease hard-liners by emphasizing, "In our propaganda, we must firmly oppose bourgeois liberalism, that is, publicity that favors taking the capitalist road." He continued, "We exert ourselves for socialism not only because socialism provides conditions for faster development of the forces of production than capitalism but also because only socialism can eliminate the greed, corruption and injustice that are inherent in capitalism...
Alarmed by the Jobs-Sculley conflict and Apple's sagging position, company directors pressured Sculley to exert his power as chief executive. Last May he did so. In a major corporate reorganiza tion, Sculley realigned the company along conventional manufacturing and marketing lines. Jobs, who had sought to persuade the board to fire Sculley, was kicked upstairs, losing all operating authority. Four months later he was gone...