Word: exertions
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September 1988 A controversial report, commissioned by the Board of Overseers, recommends that the administration exert more control over who is elected to the Board. The proposal is seen by many critics as a heavy-handed attempt to keep dissenting voices out of the inner circles of Harvard decision-making...
Murdoch, who built his News Corp. empire on sensation-mongering tabloids, still loves to exert leverage and shake things up. In Britain earlier this month, critics charged that his cuts in the newsstand price of the staid London Times and the tabloid Sun were predatory moves to drive rivals out of business, which he denies. In New York City, angry employees threatened to shut down the bankrupt Post, which Murdoch owned from 1976 to 1988 and began running again last April in preparation for repurchasing it and rescuing it from collapse. The employee threat was prompted by management demands...
...mother takes special pride in landing her daughter in Cambridge. "The only time I ever tried to exert influence on her was the choice between Yale and Harvard," she says. "I asked her to go back to Harvard at least once and if she didn't like it, then she could go to Yale...
...Clinton help himself by turning to three agreeable men to be his top aides. In McLarty, Clinton has chosen a chief of staff who has either been unwilling or unable to exert much discipline on the President or his staff. Deputy chief of staff Mark Gearan is well liked, but as one campaign consultant put it, "If Mack or Mark were really angry at you, you wouldn't wet your pants. So how scared do you think Danny Rostenkowski is going to be?" Clinton tried to remedy the situation by putting Gore aide Roy Neel in charge...
...Association, which in the past has pronounced anathemas on anything sounding like medical price control, is also giving support to the Administration's plan. Pro forma support, anyway; the doctors are pleased the Administration has been listening to them and figure they have put themselves in a position to exert influence in further dickering over what finally emerges from Congress. Privately, confides one high-ranking AMA official, many members would be happy to see the plan defeated "so that we can start all over again and do it right. We want reform," he asserts, but experts estimate that the Clinton...