Word: exertion
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...Faculty report released last spring recommended that departments, with especially small numbers of women instructors exert "a special effort" to attract "the largest possible number of the strongest women candidates...
...seen of Guston's work; he was thought to have run out of steam, and so his new work was treated as a gesture of desperation, an aesthete's efforts to look like a stumblebum. If anyone had suggested in those days that the figurative Gustons would exert a pervasive influence on American art ten years later, the idea would have seemed incredible...
...were everywhere. "It is only a matter of time," he notes, "if you love life too much or fear violence too much, before you become a thing, no longer a man ... lending yourself to every conceivable low, evil, degrading act anyone tells you to do." Or, like Abbott, you exert beastliness to preserve the soul. In the penitentiary world, he says, a man can "despair because he cannot bring himself to murder...
...Eric Sevareid-style commentary to the news several times a week beginning next April. NBC has also talked about extending the Nightly News to an hour, giving Brokaw the time and latitude to produce special reports in addition to his anchor duties. How much control Brokaw and Mudd will exert over editorial content, however, is still up in the air in NBC's front office. Brokaw is optimistic: "We're not there just to read the news...
With the brouhaha over investment policy expected to continue into next year, Putnam will continue to be the key actor. As Treasurer, it is his responsibility to assess what restrictions on University investments are "feasible" in light of the University's overall objectives. How much pressure he chooses to exert may well determine the outcome of the current review...