Word: exert
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Throughout the trunk show, he refers to specific girls whose personal style seems to exert an influence. Holding up a shirt: "[sizes] 2-10, flat-to-boob, everyone has looked great in it. Hobbs [Ashley R. Hobbs ’06] was wearing it with jeans earlier." Of a rack of suits: "Alexa [L.M. Von Tobel ’06] got a pantsuit and a skirt suit for recruiting." Each mention of one of their friends piques the girls’ excitement, and they grab more from the racks. "Because of your blockmates, there are, like, 70 pieces lying...
...shifting anything: the shifter is merely a lever that signals some other mechanical minion to go into reverse. There's also a remote-entry system that lets you unlock the doors and start the car without inserting a key in the lock or ignition. You wouldn't want to exert yourself...
...course materials today. And though the Coop seemingly has room to improve a few coursepack prices, the store actually makes its lowest margins on textbooks. Those really to blame for high textbook prices, textbook publishers, face only as much pressure to lower prices as students and professors can exert. This situation is unlikely to change anytime soon. However, through some of the simple steps outlined—using e-resources, submitting reading lists earlier, remaining compatible with old editions, and avoiding switching textbooks—professors and TFs can begin to exert this pressure, and save students money...
Hurricane Katrina has forced some 1 million people to leave their homes. Their 14-day Red Cross hotel vouchers are starting to expire, and their bank accounts are dwindling. Still, relief workers insist that the displaced masses need stable housing of their own, where they can exert some control over their destinies; they don't need to share a bathroom with your children. "Bringing people into your home doesn't give them a sense of independence or dignity," says Daniel Webster, an Episcopal reverend who has been working with the Red Cross relief operation in Utah...
Much the same could be said about our government and its approach to protecting the nation. The default mode of the current administration has been to exert only as much effort as is needed to uphold its fragile façade of order and competence. This philosophy might have worked in a world devoid of unpredictable external forces, but it certainly does not work in the world of reality. In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks four years ago and Hurricane Katrina today, public grief and outrage catalyzed the reevaluation and eventual reform of malnourished, incompetent national systems...