Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...builds their plant they build it in such a way as to minimize the threat which the plant poses to the economic livelihood of rural Arkansas. Consequently, the farmers of Wright, Redfield, Ferda, and Plum Bayou, organized into the ACORN Protect Our Land Association, ask Harvard to exert pressure on Middle South Utilities to do the following things...
...student ACSR, in a unanimous vote earlier this week, had asked the University to exert pressure on Middle South, to provide environmental controls for the project...
...Student Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility asked the University in an unanimous vote to exert pressure on Middle South to provide environmental controls...
...behavior) is broken and the Independents regain command, it is very unlikely that any form of rent control would survive. Similarly, hopes for controlling high-profit, high-rise development and preserving existing neighborhoods would be shattered. Another important question is whether the council and city manager will begin to exert some authority over a police department that is growing increasingly arrogant and unruly. The Independents have shown little sensitivity to the problems of Cambridge and even less capacity to deal with these problems...
...Cutoff. Putting economic pressure behind their proposals, the Arab nations announced a cutback in oil production for export, pegging it at 5% each month. Aimed mainly at the U.S., the move was also intended to exert pressure on Washington through the nations of Western Europe and Japan, which are more dependent on Middle East oil than is the U.S. Saudi Arabia promptly went further, first declaring an immediate 10% cutback in oil production and then cutting off all oil shipments to the U.S., as did Abu Dhabi, Libya and Algeria...