Word: exertions
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Easy Up, Hard Down. The temptation to link Nixon's Peking trip to the possibility of a negotiated settlement in Viet Nam is being deliberately discouraged by Washington officials. It would be naive, they say, to expect Chinese Premier Chou En-lai to exert pressure on Hanoi to make concessions to the U.S. By merely agreeing to sit down with Nixon while the U.S. is involved in battle with Communist forces, Chou is straining China's relations with North Viet Nam. Any pressure from Peking might cause Hanoi to turn to Moscow for more help in its long...
...permanent legacies of the war will be the increase in the expectations of the Vietnamese people. That is the other side of the Honda phenomenon. The Honda is a handicap from the cost and saving side. But it may also be a strong force motivating the economy to exert itself. Economic development depends on rising expectations and on the ability and the willingness of the country to expend effort. Despite the fact that government policies have militated against national saving, the attitude of the individual, as one observes him in the country and the cities, is directed to industry rather...
...took a pot-shot at the Cambridge-Washington circuit, saying that the University's contribution to society will come through socially relevant research and "not through trying to exert political pressure or writing speeches for candidates or advising men in important public positions...
...Friendly Persuasion. The Greek government has since made clear that it has no intention of restoring democracy any time soon. Earlier this year investigators from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee concluded that "the policy of friendly persuasion has clearly failed. Indeed, the regime seems to have been able to exert more leverage on us than we have been willing to exert on the regime." Worse still was the fact that American assistance, particularly after the resumption of full aid in September, was looked upon by the Greek people as American support of one of the world's nastier regimes...
...different physiologies would fail simultaneously. They also pointed out that at no time during the long mission did the cosmonauts complain of any harsh reaction to zero gravity. In fact, they had spent long hours on board in their so-called "Penguin" exercise suits-tight, elastic garments designed to exert muscle-toning pressure on the body. Besides, the experience of America's astronauts seemed to demonstrate that the human body can readjust after prolonged weightlessness...