Word: exert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wealth, honors, emoluments--it all makes a man so proud! What have you done to earn so many advantages? You took the trouble to be born, nothing more. Apart from that, you're a rather common type. Whereas I--by God!--lost in the nameless crowd, I had to exert more strategy and skill merely to survive than has been spent for a hundred years in governing the Spanish Empire... (Barzun...
That is far from the end of the story, however. All this occurred while the President was incapacitated and unable to exert his distinctive persuasiveness. Many on Capitol Hill feel that the setbacks are reversible. The White House will certainly try to arm-twist Republican defectors on the Senate Budget Committee back into line. Moreover, in a House floor vote expected in late April or early May, some 40 conservative Democrats who hold the balance of power may yet vote for a set of spending and revenue estimates closer to the President's figures than to those of their...
...most complex aspects of Japanese business is the relationship between managers and the government. Tokyo ministries that set national economic priorities can exert substantial pressure on companies, but their influence is much less than is believed outside Japan. Says Takeshi Sakurada, chairman of the Toho Rayon manufacturing company and honorary president of the Japan Federation of Employers: "The amount of government interference or the role of government in private business is very small as compared with the U.S. or the European Community." Adds one Western economist in Tokyo: "There is no Japan Inc.-if there ever...
...deals for them. Explains a West German defense contractor: "There's prestige in mere possession of such weapons systems It strengthens their bona fides with other Arabs. And God knows the Saudis can afford them." In addition, in the Saudi view, if the West Europeans can also exert some leverage on the U.S., so much the better...
Enthusiasts claim that DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) is a remedy for everything from acne to mental retardation. Critics denounce the substance as a quack cure unsupported by scientific studies. Now though, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions have documented that DMSO can exert a powerful effect on the immune system, suggesting that it might one day be helpful in treating rheumatoid arthritis and other immune-system diseases...