Word: exert
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...media professionals believe that subliminal messages are widely used in popular entertainment, but many religious Fundamentalists contend that they are common and that they exert an almost hypnotic power. This theory was popularized by author Wilson Bryan Key, a witness for the two families. In the case of the Judas Priest album Stained Class, Key claims to find the repeated injunction "Do it," which he interprets as encouraging suicide. Attorneys for the plaintiffs also maintain that satanic incantations are revealed when the music is played backward. Testifying last week, Vance's mother, a born- again Christian, described...
Gentle, indeed. Scientists estimate that photons of sunlight falling on an area the size of a football field exert a pressure equal to the weight of a marble. Yet in the vacuum of space this tiny force is sufficient to accelerate the sailship...
...Israeli military is reportedly considering reopening the Palestinian universities in response to pressure from the European Community and the United States. We must continue to exert such pressure until the universities are reopened. As American students, we join in solidarity with Palestinian students who are being denied what we today celebrate--the tools and skills with which to enrich our lives and serve our societies. Sarinah V. Kalb '88-'90 Progressive Jewish Alliance Rhoda A. Kanaaneh '92 Society of Arab Students
...immigrants, but conflicts between earlier- arriving English, Germans and Irish and later-arriving Italians and Jews did not have the obvious and enduring element of racial skin color. And there was never a time when the nonmainstream elements could claim, through sheer numbers, the potential to unite and exert political dominance. Says Bender: | "The real question is whether or not our notion of diversity can successfully negotiate the color line...
Mandela's calls for discipline in the urban black townships have been met by continuing terror from the young warlords who exert life-and-death power in those hopeless precincts. His appeal for children to return to school after a sporadic six-year boycott has been widely ignored. And his plea for the combatants in Natal to "take your guns, your knives and your pangas and throw them into the sea" was answered by even bloodier fighting in the rolling Zululand valleys...