Word: exertion
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...ready to defy diplomatic appeals and the pressure of world opinion. And the obvious intention of the Soviet Union to challenge the West for Arab support through economic and military aid has deprived the United States and its allies of most of the diplomatic leverage they could formerly exert on the Arab states...
Amidst the confusion, each party has a stabilizing factor. In the G.O.P. Dwight Eisenhower could-if he would-be an important force in selecting the nominee. Among Democrats, Harry Truman can-and he will-exert considerable influence. No matter what either man does, the prospect for the U.S. is a yearlong, two-ring political circus that may well be the greatest show of its kind in U.S. history...
...buying. Over and above that, many others question the wisdom of a worker putting all his savings in one basket by buying only his own company's stock, argue that he would be better off by diversifying his investments. Some companies fear that organized labor may try to exert too much influence on company policy if union members own large amounts of stock. Another big worry is that unions will take over a program, make it a part of their wage bargaining. In a recent case involving California's Richfield Oil Corp., the NLRB ruled that a company...
...angry Roy Clogston, athletic director of North Carolina State College, yesterday attacked the State Department's refusal to issue visas to a touring Russian basketball team. He said he would ask North Carolina's senators today to exert Congressional pressure on the Department to get the visas...
...Edward Beaumont. From the first it was a religious movement of laymen, in spirit ecumenical, evangelical and often puritanical. Aimed at young workers who had become indifferent to religion in the turmoil of the Industrial Revolution, the Y.M.C.A. had no formal religious creed, urged its members only "to exert a Christian influence in the sphere of their daily calling...