Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...affairs lies that ideal combination of compassion and realism in the face of decisions of power. The first problem is to discover what the United States is actually doing. Then theoretically you can endorse one of three foreign policy alternatives: using power as the Administration is doing; ceasing to exert pressure on the internal affairs of other nations; or continuing to exert pressure but in a different direction...
...students have just been expelled for taking part in a demonstration against a bi-racial group of visitors to the campus. In Tuskegee, Ala., public schools that had closed rather than integrate are now open again on an integrated basis. The new federal aid-to-education bill will exert considerable influence by withholding aid from schools that cannot furnish acceptable plans for integration. In order to continue receiving aid, the U.S. Office of Education announced last week, school districts will have to desegregate at least four grades for the school year beginning in September, and all twelve grades...
Boston City Hospital (BCH) faces the loss of its accreditation because Harvard and other universities have failed to exert their influence on public officials who determine the hospital's budget, the director of the Massachusetts General Hospital charged yesterday...
...City, the New York Republican pointed out that development of an economic community with unified trade policies and a common external tariff would 1) "greatly increase Latin America's leverage with the industrial countries of Western Europe, North America and Japan in the field of trade," and 2) exert a "powerful pull" on the outside capital that is essential for rapid industrial development...
...early as age 55) that the Nebraska-size wool-and-beef-producing country is on the brink of bankruptcy. The Council, which operates by majority vote, spends most of its time bickering. When it does make a decision, the effect is severely limited by autonomous state agencies that exert an enormous influence on the nation's economy. The state-owned power company can raise gas and electricity prices whenever it likes, as can the state railroad, airline, post office, and telephone service. In short, anything the Council might suggest to control Uruguay's galloping inflation (up 38% last...