Word: exert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With a 6'3, 6'7, 6'9 starting frontcourt for much of the season, Harvard struggled to exert a presence inside--a task made even more difficult since the 6'7 Clemente is an especially perimeter- and jumpshot-minded...
...role for a Harvard president, then, is a complicated one, since it is difficult to exert any control over the deans of the separate tubs, who often pursue their own courses at the expense of the interests of the University as a whole...
...least their recent album, ADIOS, sounds like it. A shame, considering the verve and tug they can exert, violently chanting at the listener's peril. The title track, just hard-core enough for a peppy drive to high school, sings, "It's been too many times that I raised my voice at you.... Hypocritical swine I have had it this time." But if any band can fuel an album on their own burn-out, it's KMFDM. The middle of the record, however, gropes: a sicky song on aliens jumbles the rhythm begun with "ADIOS." Female vocals have served KMFDM...
Despite the apparent contentment at Harvardamong professors, Alger stresses the potential forfaculty to engage in collective action--aninformal way for professors to exert pressure inthe absence of an express right to collectivebargaining...
Forbes blamed the excesses of the current tax code on Washington lobbyists, who he said exert undue influence on the Internal Revenue Service...