Word: exertion
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WILD KINGDOM The Jebel Akhdar, or Green Mountains, exert a mythical appeal both over locals and tourists. Every Omani will tell you how beautiful the mountains are, though few have actually made the day trip. Locals warn that it's risky to try to get to the fabled mountain villages, where terraced gardens bloom. They mention an unyielding police check-post, treacherous roads and hint at other, mysterious dangers. But my companions and I were not discouraged, not least because Arabs have a charming knack for hyperbole...
Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth ’71 called the complete absence the 12 black and Latino ethnic student organizations “unfortunate” and pledged to exert more control over the yearbook submission process to prevent groups from being overlooked...
...their dissatisfaction into change. After privatization, however, residents will have no direct power over day-to-day decisions in schools. Budget allocations, curriculum choices and administrative hirings are just a few examples of decisions that will now be left to private firms and universities. Although board members can still exert some pressure on private managers by threatening to vote against their contracts when they come up for renewal, this arrangement inevitably adds a layer between the voter and the decision that is made...
...Crimson continued to extend its lead and exert its dominance in the second half, in large part due to the efforts of junior attacker Katie O’Brien...
...precise, the PEAR lab has focused in on the subtle yet significant effects that human consciousness can exert on the behavior and outcome of carefully regulated engineering experiments...