Word: exertions
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...CONTROVERSIAL: LETTER that appeared in last week's Independent warrants the reprobation of the entire Harvard community, not just that of the Gay Students Association members who immediately--and rightly--blasted it. The suggestion by Edward L. Pattullo, director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences, that society should exert "negative social pressures to deter homosexuality, shows gross intolerance towards the gay community University officials should swiftly affirm that Pattullo's views are not Harvard...
...pointed up all too clearly, members of Congress may well be so obsessed with partisan politics and their own re-election chances that they are simply unable to act decisively to help rescue a deeply troubled economy. Contends Idaho's Republican Senator James McClure: "We've got to exert responsibility. The country is hurting. I think Congress should make the decision to cut the deficits even if the President won't. And if we don't, the public ought to blame Congress." But Colorado Democrat Gary Hart, a member of the Senate Budget Committee, disagrees. "You don't force...
...fact that there is an internal debate within Congress over whether it can and should lead or only react to presidential initiatives shows how uncertain the two houses have become about their own role in the Federal Government. If Congress is unwilling to exert its power over the purse, it has lost its grip on its most fundamental constitutional mandate...
...aftermath of the liberal activist Court of Chief Justice Earl Warren--which provoked the wrath of conservatives by striking down legislation with regularity during the 1950s and 1960s. What makes Ely's approach unique is that he spotlights a small area in which he argues judges must exert their authority. As a result, he likes to call himself "a selective activist...
...appealing gentlemen, joined by junior senators such as New Jersey's Bill Bradley, representatives like Colorado's Timothy Wirth and Missouri's Richard Gephardt, and heavy weights from academe and high finance--MIT economist Lester Thurow and New York investment banker Felix Rohatyn for example--are beginning to exert a strong influence on the thinking of the Democratic party...