Word: exertions
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...friend and policymaker and the editor of the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram. Heikal, who is somewhat estranged from Sadat but sees Gaddafi as a new force in Arab politics, takes considerable hope in the forthcoming Egyptian-Libyan federation. He believes that the new alliance will be strong enough to exert pressure, via the conservative Arab states and the U.S., to make Israel withdraw from the occupied territories...
...self-defining elites. The men who compose the English Department look for Richard Ellmann, the Sociology Department takes Christopher Jencks, and the Economics Department rejects Samuel Bowles, and in each case the department measures the potential member against its own standard. The controls outside ad hoc committees actually exert over tenured appointments are initially not very impressive, and become less so when their membership is considered. Ad hoc committees consist of non-Harvard leading scholars in the field, and Harvard's experts aren't likely to differ markedly with fraternal outsiders...
...some of the present farm programs dropped. They are well aware of the inequities, but the farmer has to make a living also. If the farmer gets less income from the Government, the price of food cannot decline. Someone has to pay the cost. The Government will have to exert some control to see that there is a sufficient food supply. If one goes to buy a car, he can wait several weeks; but who can wait for a loaf of bread...
There are some quiet laughs, and those ominous black campers exert a weird, compulsive kind of suspense, although they are a lot more intriguing in their cryptic malevolence than in the mundane explanation eventually dispensed by the scenarist...
...months ago, and a dozen couples are in initial stages of courtship. So far there have been no weddings. Arranged marriages represent a persistent tradition in Japan-one recent study estimated that 20% of matches in Tokyo are still put together by parents-but company counselors insist that they exert no pressure on employees to marry their printout partners. Mitsubishi executives do admit that they value such intramural mergers. Says Ito: "When the wife shares the same corporate frame of reference with her husband, she can only understand him more and help achieve for him a higher degree of performance...