Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...restructuring of the board would enable the University to exert direct influence over the magazine's business and advertising affairs, such as subscription drives, Cronin said...
...insistence on the realization of Arab goals." Last week Egyptian President Anwar Sadat met in Riyadh with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd?who makes his first visit to Washington this week?and Syria's Hafez Assad. The three ledfders found the portents discouraging. If Washington is unable to exert pressure on the new Israeli government for a settlement, one Syrian official said, "any kind of peace conference would be quite useless. The only other way would appear to be to resort to military action...
...Carter Administration is acutely aware, it may take some time before the U.S. will be able to exert pressure on a Jerusalem government that is an unknown quantity. "I hope that the election of Mr. Begin will not be a step backward toward the achievement of peace," President Carter said last week in a cautious assessment of the changeover. Added the President, "we are now assessing in a private way ... the possible consequences of the election results." Even Israel's citizens still need to sort out the meaning of what was in many ways the most extraordinary election...
...reason, explained San Antonio Vet Oscar Woytek, is that Americans tend to feed their animals, especially dogs, the same high-quality, cooked table meats with which they gorge themselves. That not only adds beastly pounds, but hurts the animal in other ways. A German shepherd, for instance, can exert so much pressure with his jaws (700 Ibs. per sq. in.) that he can easily splinter a cooked bone into tiny shrapnel-like pieces, some of which may perforate his intestines. It is far better, says A.A.H.A. President Warren Walker, to give dogs uncooked shank or knuckle bones, which are harder...
...both accounts. One recurrent note is the widespread opposition in Israel, by Jews and Arabs alike, to government policy vis a vis the Arab minority. The military apparatus organized in 1950 to deal with every aspect of Arab life, a system which lasted formally until 1966 and continued to exert a major influence over administrative practices thereafter, was criticized repeatedly by established Jewish groups, notably the Mapam Party...