Word: exertion
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Frustrations like these were not uncommon. Yet they resulted as much from the fragmented structure of the HDC as from concerted faculty attempts to exert control. HDC membership meetings were loud, long and fruitless--particularly since no amount of discussion could overcome the organization's overriding problem: lack of money...
Every revolution needs a leader, and the Spring '65 upheaval at the Loeb proved no exception. Power was fine, but there had to be someone on the newly enfranchised HDC executive committee to consolidate and exert it. That someone quickly became Timothy S. Mayer '66, president of Harvard G&S and one of the five self-appointed leaders of the new HDC hierarchy...
...committee will probably first attempt to mobilize faculty and student opposition to the Belt itself, or exert pressure for an alternate to the present Brookline-Elm St. route, which may displace as many as 1500 families. If this is impossible, however, they will work to find housing elsewhere for displaced families...
...Whatever the verdict history eventually passes on Mr. Johnson's policy in Viet Nam, he has shown that the United States is as willing to exert its influence in Asia as it is in Europe. The shift of America's weight to its Pacific flank is making itself felt...
...magazine was founded in 1960 by Béchir ben Yahmed, 38, a Tunisian who decided he could exert more influence as a journalist than as a politician. An intimate of Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, he quit his job as Minister of Information because he felt that his boss had assumed too much power. The danger of one-man rule is, in fact, one of Jeune Afrique's most persistent themes. "We believe that the funda mental role of the press is to prevent leaders from taking advantage of the people," says Ben Yahmed. "Africa's rulers have...