Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marks. In terms of keeping the longer-range problems in mind, I would give him high marks. Where I would fault him most is in the political end. That may sound strange, since he is a political man. But he has not seized opportunities that he has had to exert leadership. On occasion he has had too little imagination...
...Americans seem to be drifting, or maybe searching for leadership. How are you going to turn this around? Can you exert leadership from this office...
...Strange Appeal. Social psychologists have long been aware that disasters can exert a strange appeal. The sharing of a common threat pulls people together and creates a sense of purpose and adventure. "If you're in a rut, locked into your career," says Marvin Geller, director of Princeton's counseling services, "you may hope for some cataclysmic event to shake you out of it." Nostalgia for the '30s, fed by TV shows like The Waltons, can make the harsh realities of depression seem attractive...
...Panhellenic Liberation Movement). Andreas--as he is universally known--advocates neutrality, promotes the Third World and comes across aggressively, enthusiastically and eloquently. Many people consider the man a threat to post-junta stability; of all the politicians (besides the Communists, who have little apparent power or desire to exert any radical influenced, have suffered suppression, and are newly haunted by the specter of Chile), he is least acceptable to the army and the Americans, who are still feared as potentially troublesome. As Kissinger told Greek Archibishop Iakovos, with blithe overgeneralization, "We do not wish at all to see Papandreou governing...
...Harvard administration has blatantly put financial considerations ahead of education and has thus amassed the most astounding horde of gold--called "endowment," used to exert power and as a means to evade equal admission and equal employment legislation...