Word: exertion
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American Jews exert an influence on American opinion that is far heavier than their numbers would indicate. They are the strongest single influence on the big media...They control much of the financial community, and through it, large segments of the academic community...Oh, they scream anti-Semitism whenever anyone mentions their power, but it's true...
Several Faculty members have said recently they think Harvard graduates could exert a leavening influence on the military. Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty for the Colleges who proposed the new resolution, said at the meeting he believes it better that there be "some of us amongst them" than to be totally alienated from the military...
...time for Uncle Sam to exert some guiding influence and remove the specter of nuclear catastrophe from the already tragic situation in the Middle East...
Discredited Leader. To forestall any such confrontation, U.S. Special Envoy L. Dean Brown (TIME, April 12) continued his talks with leaders of the Christian and Moslem factions. France also dispatched retired Diplomat Georges Gorse to see what influence Paris could exert...
...vast new promised land -the West. The industry has long known about the immense coal reserves between Arizona and Montana. But few operators chose to mine the deposits, mainly because the coal was too far from the biggest markets. Yet after 1970, the Western coal began to exert a powerful new appeal for the simple reason that it has a low sulfur content...