Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...different physiologies would fail simultaneously. They also pointed out that at no time during the long mission did the cosmonauts complain of any harsh reaction to zero gravity. In fact, they had spent long hours on board in their so-called "Penguin" exercise suits-tight, elastic garments designed to exert muscle-toning pressure on the body. Besides, the experience of America's astronauts seemed to demonstrate that the human body can readjust after prolonged weightlessness...
...observed that "the U.S. is not in a position to exercise pressure on Israel, either because she does not want to or because she is unable to." This line is undoubtedly also being stressed by Soviet diplomats in Arab capitals. The implication is that while Washington is unable to exert pressure, Moscow may soon be in a position...
SHARP, a CFIA fellow, describes nonviolence as a "power relying on noncooperation, intervention, and nonviolent moral courage." Specific actions include marches, boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, and obstructions. Nonviolence is based on the idea that the system needs the cooperation of the people in order to exert control over them. If the people by their own will decide to withdraw that cooperation, Sharp reasons, then the system must topple...
...recognize international boundaries, and thus threaten progress made at home. Beyond that, businessmen legitimately complain that their products, already at a disadvantage on the international market because of high domestic costs, will become even more expensive as a result of the new pollution controls. The U.S. could start to exert pressure on other industrial nations to set stricter standards for their own automakers and steel producers, for example, just as it currently requires imported cars to carry safety equipment that is mandatory for Detroit's models. Otherwise, Nader may be able to use another new term-environmental recession...
...packets for nonexistent workers. Featherbedding on the papers is so blatant that some employees serve on a so-called "cinema shift": they check in, then go out to see a movie and return just in time to check out. The National Union of Journalists, which organizes editorial employees, cannot exert deadline pressure as effectively as the shop unions-and resents it. Says N.U.J. Official Donald Young: "The real problem is that weak-minded management has knuckled under to comparatively unskilled...