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...first we must stop watching from the sidelines. Let us not go down in history as the generation of Beavis and Butthead. We members of Generation X must find our collective voice and exert the influence that we can and should have. This country has many problems that need fixing and many people who need helping...
...never happens," says Edward N. Cyr, who saton the council from 1990 to 1994. Cyr says the CCAhas repeatedly failed in its efforts to exert"occasionally inappropriate" influence on itscouncillors' votes...
...complaint, even in a society that shuns direct attack, is finding echoes in high places. Yokohama Mayor Hidenobu Takahide, a former construction-ministry official, says baldly, ``The problem is that the government did not exert leadership.'' In a speech to the Diet, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama pledged that his government would ``waste no time in taking every necessary fiscal and financial measure'' to help rebuild the devastated area. But when he suggested that the relief effort had faltered because of the quake's unprecedented severity, loud jeers rang out from the opposition benches. It was widely reported that Murayama...
...here has indeed been a Faculty Committee with ability to exert authority over all aspects of Brooks House operation for may years," he wrote. "The Dean has not seen fit to convene this committee for two years...
Barylski says the radio station will definitely pay back the money. The University will exert no power over WHRB broadcasting, he says...