Word: exertions
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...make the world a little more just. But it also tells us something about the power of patents, and suggests the unique role that universities occupy in their formulation. Because universities are situated “up-stream” in the research process, they have the ability to exert tremendous leverage over the extent of drug patents. When a university licenses a potential new drug to the private-sector, it can choose to do so in a way that helps to ensure that the drug will be made accessible to the world’s poorest...
...response, lay Catholics today participate in parish life in numbers--and exert an influence--unimaginable a few generations ago. For the church, that is good news and bad--the bad news being that the muscle tone of the institution suffers when numbers of American individualists feel free to do it themselves, as they have long since done in regard to contraception. The American form may become a sort of Shinto Catholicism--a mild form of Sunday theater...
...runaway economy complete with nasty inflation is unfathomable to a battered labor force more focused on getting or keeping jobs in the current climate. But Gross and other bond investors get paid to look far ahead, take their best guesses and place their bets accordingly. In the process, they exert near total control over the rate you pay when borrowing to buy a house, car or toaster...
...Kinnock "systematically misrepresented and tormented by a very vicious, powerful right-wing press," in Oborne's words, proved a searing experience for Campbell as well as many other Labour supporters of this period. It's a primal source of the determination he has shown as Blair's spokesman to exert iron discipline not only on the press pack but on Labour politicians who might be inclined to deviate from the centrally determined line. He won high marks from the press as Blair led Labour's comeback and first years in government: competent and sharp, a brilliant tactician and worthy opponent...
...former Iraqi soldiers to perform cleanup and security tasks and were stunned when Bremer told them that was not going to happen (a decision he reversed, in part, after a month of turmoil). Garner's 200-member Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq found itself unable to exert authority over the activities of the 146,000 soldiers in Iraq, let alone Iraqi civilians. And part of the problem was Garner himself, who had earned plaudits for overseeing humanitarian efforts in northern Iraq after the first Gulf War but who, according to some Administration officials, lacked the executive savvy...