Word: exertions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jewish civic and business leaders with a proud sense of Judaism's traditional willingness to take care of its own. U.J.A.'s fund raisers sell hard and sell soft, specialize in massive telephone assaults on their business friends and fund-raising lunches at which big donors exert moral pressure on the reluctant by publicly announcing their pledges. The drive is conducted in 3,500 communities, with New York City's 2,500,000 Jews generally the highest contributing, followed by Chicago (400,000), Los Angeles (400,000), Philadelphia (300,000). At last week's Miami lunch...
...hundred days" is taken seriously, the new term will bring not an effective effort by Council members to exert its persuasive powers as a pressure group but nebulous and seldom fulfilled plans for Council-sponsored extra activities. Clearly public seminars, week-long forums on international affairs, and politically involved sub-committees are beyond the realm of an efficient Student Council. The aims of such projects are a legitimate concern of a student pressure group, but the execution of these programs would best be delegated to other undergraduate organizations...
...common tariff wall, and London's own indecision have, over the last year, made it more and more difficult for Britain to associate the Seven with the Common Market even if it should want to. Possibly the U.S. could use the Organization for European Economic Cooperation to exert pressure on the Seven to join, or even to help form an Atlantic Economic Community of the sort that Under-secretary Dillon once spoke of. But this measure would be of highly doubtful value; economic integration is by no means always a good thing, and before acting the Administration should wait...
...Pursue the test-ban negotiations in Geneva with determination, not an equivocal policy alternating between the State Department and the AEC. If the U.S. and Russia agree, they can exert pressure on the younger members of the nuclear club and, even more importantly, on the People's Republic of China...
...hypnosis to cure severe asthma does not necessarily show the ailment to be psychological in origin. Many asthma victims act sicker than they really are, but the Scottish patient was a "welladjusted individual" who displayed "no signs of psychiatric breakdown." Rather, says Sinclair-Gieben, it shows that hypnosis can exert a physical as well as psychological effect: "It is widely believed that conditions responding to hypnosis must of necessity be wholly psychologically determined. However, in other conditions-for example, organic pain and warts-it has been demonstrated that hypnosis can influence an accepted physical disease entity. Clearly, hypnosis appears...