Word: exertions
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...addition to their many other accomplishments, the Nazis continue to exert a woeful hold on the Western imagination, as anyone who has attended many postwar productions of opera or Shakespeare can attest. The swastika has become a trite symbol of evil; foot soldiers in dramas tend to goose-step. Things are going a little too far, though, when synchronized swimming--also known as water ballet--fixes on death camps as a motif for aquatic drama. Such was the case with the French Olympic team, which, in preparing its effort for Atlanta this summer, crafted a routine featuring swimmers...
...greatest leverage in the capital, but if you don't know what is going on in the countryside, you may exert your efforts in the wrong direction," Romer says...
...anyone who uses the word "underrepresentation" encourages quotas. That term sets up a moral expectation that each group is entitled to its proportionate share of the best positions of every kind. Perhaps the expectation will not be made specific or will not be strictly enforced, but it will exert constant pressure against an unbiased concern for merit. Indeed, that pressure is just what proponents of affirmative action say they want to maintain. They do not want quotas, but they want the disposition to quotas that makes the formal requirement unnecessary--and keeps it concealed. Representation has to do with political...
...your lungs, blood and brain. The smoke delivers a strong hit--about 2 mg in each cigarette--of nicotine, a compound the U.S. Surgeon General in 1988 deemed an addictive drug. But is nicotine alone what hooks people on tobacco? Apparently not. According to a new report, smoking may exert yet another powerfully addictive influence, one that enhances the effect of nicotine in what a leading researcher calls a "diabolical synergism...
...hand. If domestic opposition somehow prevents Clinton from sending the troops to Bosnia that he has promised, U.S. leadership in Europe will collapse, along with NATO itself, in all likelihood. That would gut an alliance that has lasted sturdily for almost half a century. Ideally, the U.S. would exert a stable, reliable force throughout the world that is something like gravity. If NATO breaks up over Bosnia, and the U.S. keeps retreating from leadership, international relations could be a little like earth with the gravity turned...