Word: exertion
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...only concluded that the President's office, shaken by the recent Dow and McNamara incidents, is attempting to exert control over the kind and amount of publicity Harvard's Left will receive. Such interference is intolerable in a university and is flagrantly inconsist-with the ideals President Pusey insisted he was upholding at the time of the Dow demonstration...
...syndicates, defended student rights and sharp ened public feeling against the country's army. But last week the Brazilian clergy, liberal and conservative alike, angrily rose up in unison. It issued a warning that it would take no nonsense from the army and, moreover, that it intended to exert its influence on the course of government policy...
Britain's move posed an immediate challenge to the stability of the dollar and the ability of the U.S. Government to defend it. It also gave Lyndon Johnson a new rationale to exert extra pressure for his proposed surcharge on income taxes. He lost no time trying, but he quickly discovered that what may strike him as imperative may strike Congress in quite a different...
...whom he replaced last year as Indonesia's top man, General Suharto is a cautious and colorless fellow-which is just what Indonesia needs. He rules Indonesia with such quiet modesty and attention to detail that his advisers have been constantly prodding him to make more speeches and exert more power. Last week Suharto showed that he can act as forcefully, if not as flamboyantly, as Sukarno. In what he mildly called "a redressing," he announced his first big Cabinet shakeup, a move that consolidated his own power and clearly reflected his confident control of the country...
...well restrict credit-as it did in similar circumstances last year-and perhaps make tight money an even bigger election-year issue than higher taxes. Fast-rising prices do not make for friendly voters either. As obnoxious as these alternatives may be in Washington, they have yet to exert any lubricating effect on the stalemate between Lyndon Johnson and the House of Representatives...