Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Neill predicted last night that opponents to the bill would try to stretch the hearings and filibuster in the Senate debate. He said that the House discharge petition, although lacking enough signatures to bypass the Rules Committee, will exert sufficient pressure to bring early passage of the bill next year...
...serious problems affecting the quality of teaching fellow appointments is the existence of a number of government and private fellowship grants that forbid or limit greatly teaching by the recipient. It is important for Harvard and its governing Boards to exert themselves to change the terms of such fellowship grants. This effect has been especially serious in the sciences...
...with an executive secretary. The Liberals' current goal is to add 200,000 to their usual 400,000 votes next year. They can probably do it. But the growth will be ephemeral if left uncemented by a firm party organization. With such an organization, the Liberal Party could both exert enormous pressure on the Democrats and elect officeholders...
...Inevitable Outbursts. Manny Celler got the message. Late in the week he promised to "put aside my own feelings" and "exert every effort" toward reporting a compromise version of the bill from his committee within two weeks. Inevitably, there were some angry outbursts. Clarence Mitchell, Washington director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, cried that "there is no reason for this kind of sellout." The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, an association of top civil rights leaders, sent a three-page letter to Celler urging him to ignore Bobby's advice. For all that...
Washington will not only need to use its influence through the OAS to return democracy to the Dominican Republic. It must also exert continued and lasting pressure on the army to make constitutionalism stick. If the United States supplemented this with a program of aid and export price supports far more comprehensive than any it has yet offered, a new government in Santo Domingo might find the prosperity and stability that alone can insure democracy will stay there...