Word: exertion
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Their bosses will like his grand conclusion even less: the press is too busy producing and selling its product on deadline, and is too closely allied with the ruling business establishment, to exert the kind of boat-rocking power denounced by such critics as Senator William Proxmire and a few TV Guide columnists. Thus it is safer and more profitable for a newspaper to denounce "Son of Sam" or the Hillside Strangler than neighborhood supermarket pricing policies. Especially on ad-filled Thursdays. "My life in journalism has persuaded me that the press too often tries to guard its freedom...
...must try to understand what harsh realities have motivated some PLO groups to take such a course. Thirty years of refugee life and four fruitless wars have made the Palestinians feel they must cry out louder with more audible means to make their cause heard, and to exert pressure that will guarantee that any future-settlement will consider the Palestinian population as a primary factor to reckon with...
...Harvard should exert its influence in favor of decriminalization for dope possessors and personal users." Slayton said...
...black journalist, Percy Qoboza, 40, recently spent five months in prison for his political convictions; nonetheless, he remains a man of moderation who prefers reconciliation to violence. Although there is growing resentment among radicalized blacks of foreign support for the Pretoria regime. Qoboza argues that the U.S. can still exert helpful pressure on South Africa- primarily through U.S. corporations that do business there - in such a way that his country would not become further isolated and its white population more deeply antagonized. Qoboza, whose crusading black-oriented daily The World was suppressed at the time of his arrest...
...ballerina, sort of a graceful coat-rack. That is no excuse for laziness, however, especially during his own solos. Brown has considerable strength, but instead of the effortlessness of the great dancer he moved with an air of nonchalance, as though it really wasn't worth his while to exert much energy or to smooth out the rough edges in his technique...