Word: exerting
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...just because there are worse injustices, it does not mean we should not take action in situations where we can actually exert influence. And to claim that a security officer does not deserve to be paid a living wage because he can sit down on the job—or even do something as audacious as read a book—is unfair...
...opportunity to tie it with less than 10 seconds left, but a check from a Yale defender ended his hopes to cap the impossible comeback with a last-second goal.“That’s sort of representative of their efforts the whole season: exert leadership, carry the load, set an example, all the things you’d hope anyone in any aspect of life would do,” Harvard coach Scott Anderson said.Flood dominated the faceoff X in what was pegged to be one of his tougher assignments of the year. Facing Bulldog junior Gregory...
...Without using her name, Tenet alleges that then-National Security Adviser Condi Rice did not exert the kind of scrutiny of Rumsfeld's and Cheney's ideas as she did of the CIA and the State Department. Tenet says the lack of clear White House oversight of reconstruction efforts in Iraq meant US policy was "almost guaranteed" to fail...
...John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry, speaking at the First Parish Church on Saturday, condemned the environmental policy of the Bush administration and urged citizens to exert political pressure on their representatives. “Ladies and gentlemen, there is nothing like defeat to concentrate the mind of a politician,” Kerry said. Kerry and Heinz Kerry spoke at the event, organized by the Harvard Book Store, to promote their new book, “This Moment on Earth: Today’s New Enviromentalists and their Vision for the Future...
Thankfully, Harvard is leading the pack in these campaigns and our unionization victory last semester was a great step forward for the nation-wide movement. Nevertheless, Harvard should not take this victory, and sit idly by as AlliedBarton and security officers negotiate, but instead it should exert its tremendous influence to guarantee that AlliedBarton agrees to and implements a fair and just contract...