Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of the present farm programs dropped. They are well aware of the inequities, but the farmer has to make a living also. If the farmer gets less income from the Government, the price of food cannot decline. Someone has to pay the cost. The Government will have to exert some control to see that there is a sufficient food supply. If one goes to buy a car, he can wait several weeks; but who can wait for a loaf of bread...
...public issues. Because of that mutual concern, lawyers of the two organizations are huddled this week to plan strategy against a common crisis: a ruling of the Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver denying Hargis' organization its federal income tax exemption because it attempted to exert "political" influence. In 1966 the Internal Revenue Service revoked Christian Echoes' exemption for the same reason, but in 1971 a federal court in Tulsa overruled the IRS. In reversing the Tulsa decision, 3-0, the Denver court prohibited tax-exempt organizations from "direct and indirect appeals to legislators...
...next weeks will be stamped on Indochina. Perhaps for generations, we must call on our Congress to insist upon a peace settlement that does not set a precedent for terror bombing as a legitimate and successful negotiating lactic: and we call upon the nations of the world--who today exert more influence on the United States government than its own citizens--to deny victory to the new Germans...
...predicting that the city of San Francisco, perched precariously over the San Andreas fault, would some day be hit by another devastating tremor. Reuben Greenspan, 69, was not nearly so vague as that. Operating on a long-standing theory that certain relative positions of the sun and moon can exert catalytic-and predictable-pressures on the earth's surface, Greenspan announced in 1971 that an earthquake would strike the city on Jan. 4, 1973 at 9:20 a.m. Last week Greenspan delphically hedged on his prediction, saying he wanted to verify the data and didn't mean...
...group decided to contact prominent members of Phi Delta Kappa and other professional, honorary and educational associations and ask them to exert pressure on the international executive board which will be deciding the issue...