Word: exertion
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...which some form of electronic, or "techno," music is played, usually by a deejay. A rave can be as small as 25 people or larger than 25,000. And while raves have been around for a decade, the rituals, visuals and sounds associated with raves have finally started to exert a potent influence on pop music, advertising and even computer games. Several new films about raves are either in theaters or coming soon, including the British comedy Human Traffic and the documentaries Better Living Through Circuitry and Rise, a study of the rave scene in New Orleans. Says Jason Jordan...
...functioning as an incomparable diet-and-exercise program. Slim down, shape up. Sexual behavior: If all the service people - women as well as men - are in their 50s, the incidence of sexual harassment will decline almost to zero. So will the incidence of pregnancies. Let older, more mature hormones exert their civilizing influence. (The commanding officer may want to have a word with Private Clinton on this matter). Boomer psyche: An all-middle-aged army would repair at last the moral split in the generation. (Those who served back then would, of course, not be expected to serve now, unless...
FIRST The destructive nature of the current flavor of competition, dotcoms. Sure, most will fail. But the survivors will exert enormous pressure--fast!--on the Big Guys. When an Amazon or a Charles Schwab moves into your neighborhood, you've got moments to react. Or take king entrepreneur Jim Clark of Netscape fame. His latest venture, Healtheon/WebMD, intends to squeeze hundreds of billions of dollars of waste out of the health-care system. These new firms aim to create nothing less than havoc in the theaters in which they operate...
...years supporting the NHLBI's position, according to TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "Systolic pressure can show what's happening throughout the circulatory system, rather than only within the heart itself." For example, Smith explains, a systolic reading not only shows the force the heart is required to exert in order to push blood past resistance points, it also measures the pressure generated within vessels to keep blood moving to different organs - which can pinpoint a patient's risk for stroke or general damage to blood vessels...
...article. Comic strips are easily read and this gives them an opportunity to convey their (negative) message. Furthermore, comic strips rarely incite the intellectual analysis and discussion necessary to combat the racist imagery --the audience digests the stereotypes almost unconsciously. Most of all, comic strips present visual symbols that exert strong influence over public perception of minorities. It stands for the intolerance and dehumanization Asian-Americans have faced and continue to face in this great nation...