Word: exertion
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...Parliament of able if unscrupulous men, in the case of the Student Council it produces a heterogeneous body of undergraduates who, no matter how able in their individual fields, are seldom capable of even a normal performance of what should be the duties of Student Council members, and who exert all their scrupulosity to avoid anything so compromising as action...
Moscowitz warned, however, that such conventions "do seem important while you're there, running around in subcommissions," but felt that NSA did not exert enough influence in educational or political circles to make it worth the $600 the Council paid it for membership...
...University officials that it does. We hope these officials will consider the problems we feel exist and take steps to insure an adequate solution which will guarantee that the University is the sole authority in all facets of student employment, and that the Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. does not exert any undue pressures and influence...
...This is a building that we believe may exert an influence on the office of the future, perhaps even on the city of the future." says Connecticut General's President Frazar Wilde. And not without reason. For as industry shifts to the countryside, it can build with a streamlined efficiency almost impossible in the interlocking gridiron of big-city interests. Connecticut General, designed by the Manhattan office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, is a prime example of the best in large-scale planning, functional building and site development...
...expected, the word brought an outraged howl from United Automobile Workers President Walter Reuther, who only a fortnight ago demanded an "anti-inflation" cut of $100 on 1958 cars (TIME, Sept. 2). Thunderbird Reuther, announcing an appeal to President Eisenhower "to exert his great persuasive charm" on the "irresponsibility" of the automakers: "You can increase wages and cut prices and make money if production is increased...