Word: exert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...argument for working within the system in South Africa superficially carries the weight of common sense. If you want to exert leverage in a situation you have to have your hand on the over. But history has a funny way of turning common sense on the head...
...integrated workplace and advancement opportunies for a small percentage of Blacks--although Harvard's past laxity in enforcing these provisions and the willingness of companies such as Baker to ignore Harvard's appeals do not bode well for this best-case scenario. But whatever progressive influence American corporations might exert through measures such as integrated washrooms or the promotion of a handful of Blacks to management positions, is vastly outweighed by the support-and the legitimacy-investment lends the regime as a hole. The South African government depends heavily, on American investment and technology to finance and enforce its apartheid...
...must accept that the University's first commitment is to the advancement of liberal arts education. As a representative of that commitment, Harvard's administration cannot institute any programs which compromise its integrity, as would complete divestiture. As President Bok has argued, if the University were to forcefully exert the political and economic clout it possesses, then it could not argue that Harvard must remain autonomous from outside pressure exerted upon it. In other words, if we were to fully divest, embracing the full economic and political ramifications which divestiture entails, Harvard itself might be subject, for example...
...first step toward political equality. In addition, the underpinnings of apartheid, which lie both in the abhorrent treatment of non-whites in the workplace and in the community, will gradually be undermined. Through their presence in South Africa, American business, with the direction of concerned shareholders like Harvard, exert a constant and realistic force which the South African regime will, in time, be forced to satiate...
...would be a mistake, however, to conclude that the Kremlin's many frustrations will make either its present or its future leaders any easier for the U.S. to deal with. The effect could be exactly the opposite. In any case, the U.S. has little leverage that it can exert. Speaking of the Soviet leadership jockeying, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a Kremlinologist at Washington's Brookings Institution, says bluntly, "There is nothing the U.S. can do about this...