Word: exertion
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...years, the government has been operating and intervening more ambitiously by directing resources. Instead of regulation, the U.S now obtains results by heaving money into different areas. This has brought with it the rise of the economist and in particular the think tank, which enables the economist to exert his knowledgeable influence. In order to dig deeper into what makes a think tank tick, Szanton proposes that three questions economists often ask be explored: (1) What is being produced? (2) How is it being produced? (3) For whom is it being produced...
...week, when the Cost of Living Council exempted from controls some 5,000,000 companies that have 60 or fewer employees each (small companies in the inflation-ridden fields of health care and construction are still controlled). COLC Director Donald Rumsfeld said: "It appears to us that competition will exert pay and price control on these small businesses...
...found in a boycott of classes; it is rather to be found in massive public disorder which threatens their ability to rule. Our function should not be to prevent ideologists like Kissinger and Banfield from delivering lectures, but to make it impossible for them to operate or exert influence on an official level...
...host of individual searches by many individual committees covering a shifting number of highly varied fields of knowledge. Once again, no one can predict what proportions of women or minority persons will emerge within the sum of these separate search efforts. Second, I fear that setting targets will inevitably exert strong pressures to meet outside goals--a pressure that will undermine to some extent the University's overriding obligation to select the very best candidate for each available position...
Guimares said he feared that "the Americans may even send troops if the Portuguese ad...it defeat" and he urged the audience to "continue to exert pressure--in Congress and in the anti-Gulf action at Harvard--so that the U.S. will not continue to aid Portugal...