Word: exertion
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What should the President do to exert leadership? Lead. We are in a very, very critical position as a nation. We have to reassure everyone at home and abroad that this country is not just standing still. He was going to reorganize the State Department. It's totally inept. Nothing has been done. I visited the Pentagon last week. I was appalled...
Harvard does not have to do anything about the land now because a number of court suits are pending to halt the plant's construction. Yet Harvard, as owner of 240 acres of land vital to the project, could exert pressure--either for or against--if it so chose...
...Nixon Administration has lost a more intangible element of national leadership: the ability to mediate, persuade and inspire. Without such fragile qualities as trust, credibility and integrity, that ability is seriously impaired. The ramifications of Watergate have badly diminished the Administration's capacity to exert moral authority...
Currency crises are supposed to exert a dangerously depressing force on international business, because they create devastating uncertainty about the value of paper money. But the effect on that exemplar of corporate internationalism, American Express Co., has been quite the opposite. Despite, or indeed partly because of the monetary upheavals of the last two years, the company is making more money than ever in its 123-year history. During 1972 its profits rose 20% for the 24th consecutive yearly increase. This year is starting out even better. Chairman Howard L. Clark disclosed last week that earnings in the first quarter...
...Council, and particularly Wilson, attempted to exert more influence in the last stages of negotiations. Wilson prevented the press from entering the village, and for the last 11 days of the occupation, newsmen wrote their stories from the roadblocks...