Word: exert
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...whole idea behind estrogen and progestin therapy after menopause is for the supplemental hormones to replace the estrogen that the woman's body is no longer making. If hormone therapy starts while the naturally circulating estrogen is still around, some doctors think that the hormones will continue to exert beneficial effects on the heart. The latest study seems to support this idea...
...Venice summit promptly made clear, Reagan's efforts to exert his leadership are severely handicapped. Europeans readily acknowledge that in arms negotiations American military power far overshadows that of any other ! ally: indeed, U.S. defense spending ($289 billion last year) is more than half the size of Britain's entire gross domestic product ($547 billion in 1986). But in economic matters, the crippling U.S. budget and trade deficits cause America to appear as a supplicant rather than a confident leader. The $170 billion shortfall in trade last year made the U.S. the world's largest debtor nation. A Western diplomat...
...SOCH’s resources and office space in its first year. An adjustment period is to be expected.Beyond the spaces and events over which the College has immediate control lies the uncharted territory of social events hosted by extracurricular groups and social clubs. In an attempt to exert control over this arena, the College proposed—and the Faculty approved—a poorly-conceived alcohol policy this spring.The new policy codifies the College’s previously informal amnesty policy, protecting students who bring themselves or their dangerously intoxicated peers to University Health Services (UHS) from disciplinary...
...discrimination at the University, then as now, caused controversy. Theda Skocpol, then a candidate for tenure and now the outgoing Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, accused the University of sexism, the Director of Harvard's Center for Behavioral Sciences controversially called on society to exert "negative social pressures to deter homosexuality," and Women's Studies struggled for meaningful recognition as a degree-granting concentration. Many of the specific struggles from 1982 have been won, but the broader issues-issues of Harvard's treatment of its neighbors and its students, and of women and minorities-remain...
...Darnton will be faced with an unusually delicate administrative task. Each of the individual faculties of Harvard funds its own library, while the University Library is a department of the central administration. Darnton will need to bring together a decentralized set of Harvard libraries over which he does not exert direct budgetary authority...