Word: exert
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...emphasizing such broadly appealing themes as support for tax cuts, has helped make the Christian Coalition one of the most powerful grass-roots organizations in American politics. Its 1.6 million active supporters and $25 million annual budget ... hold a virtual veto on the Republican nominee for President, and will exert an extraordinary influence over who will occupy the Oval Office beginning in 1997. In fact, Reed's success represents the most thorough penetration of the secular world of American politics by an essentially religious organization in this century...
Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn says Summers has tried to exert much more influence over Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 than his predecessors, noting that “they feel constraints from across the old Yard”—where University administration building Mass. Hall sits...
...Beijing is showing signs of loosening up. Earlier this year it began allowing foreign companies to buy into state-owned production companies, a step many see as a precursor to opening its television industry more widely. "The government wants to know if its system is robust enough to exert necessary controls" on foreign participation, says David Wolf, managing director for technology and finance at the Beijing office of international public relations agency Burson-Marsteller...
Genser also highlighted the tremendous influence that Harvard could exert on Yang’s behalf...
...anticipation is warranted. Participating in NCAA tournaments and earning that opportunity to compete for a national title is what drives collegiate athletes to exert the tremendous effort that they devote to their sports. It’s also what drives college sports fans to hop on the bandwagon of teams in every sport, even if they’ve hardly noticed them throughout the regular season...