Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lubin said yesterday that the strike "will show that we can mobilize, that we can organize an effective strike, and that we can exert pressure on the administration if we want...
...group that is attempting to coerce the basic concept of law and order-with regard to the trials in Chicago-assumes they will succeed, let them know they will receive as much force as they wish to exert," he added...
...generations, the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America was identified with the rich and the few "good families" who controlled most countries. In the 1960s, Vatican II's pressures for social reform began to exert dramatic changes. Today, the Catholic clergy has been drawn into conflict with conservative regimes throughout Latin America-especially in Brazil and Paraguay...
That may also be an inevitable bluct of the university gone berserk. In theory, are three ways an editorial can exert some??le over its readers: on obscure or confused ?? can dig up new facts to educate and person issues that are already well-known, it ca??t a particularly elegant argument to win??ers; and when struggles get to the point of up firepower on each side, the paper can its collective weight to one of the teams...
...orbits, some of the miniature planets occasionally pass millions of miles closer to the earth than either Mars or Venus. A spacecraft would have to use only a small amount of fuel to land on an asteroid and blast off again; a twelve-mile-wide asteroid, for example, would exert about one ten-thousandth of the earth's gravitational pull. Even if a ten-ton spacecraft turned over as it touched down, it could be easily righted...