Word: exertions
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...Hammarskjold, seeing an opportunity to exert the U.N.'s tranquilizing influence, was quick to turn the U.S. dilemma to account. With U.S. blessing-and only pro forma Russian protests-Hammarskjold, on his own, sent Finland's Sakari Tuomioja to provide a U.N. "presence" in Laos and to look into ways of bringing U.N. help to the Laotian economy. The unspoken condition of U.N. intervention-Laotian neutrality-struck the U.S. as a reasonable price to pay for peace in Southeast Asia...
...this spiny desert, argues that "the only true originality any art can have is originality of content. If I tried to find a new way of doing sculpture, I'd be like any other guy." Baskin even avoids beautiful materials for fear their texture and color might exert too great an influence on his art, direct the attention of the viewer from the form...
...strike. At present, there seems to be no way by which to avoid it completely. Under terms of the Railway Labor Act, the government can delay the start of the strike a fair length of time; the President can invoke measures leading to an emergency negotiation board and can exert subtle pressures in other ways. The Taft-Hartley Act provides the final governmental check...
...newspapers, can choose their time of day but have no say about the program that backs up their commercials. Hence, unlike Madison Avenue ad agencies, they cannot dictate the kind of "programing concepts" that, originality-wise, may be nowhere, but that, rating-wise, are surefire. Nor can they exert pettifogging censorship; e.g., on one drama show, Ford ordered the producers to kill a shot of the New York skyline because it highlighted the Chrysler Building...
...organization of the School, two forces tend to work in opposite directions: the participating Departments sometimes exert a fragmenting influence, while the School's administrative staff attempts to unify the program. But this problem is not serious; the School does not have a faculty of its own. Rather, it is a cooperative venture of the various social sciences departments. Patterson doubts that a discipline called "Public and International Affairs" really exists, and the School does not try to develop a new discipline, but to offer an inter-disciplinary approach to certain problems...