Word: exertions
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...State Department once again insisted that to end its commercial and diplomatic isolation from the West, Iran must exert its influence to gain the release of the six American hostages thought to be held by pro-Iranian Shi'ite Muslims in Lebanon. Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Maleki took an equally hard-nosed stance: although indicating that the ordeal of the hostages might end "soon," he repeated his country's long-standing demand that its funds in the U.S. be unfrozen...
REPORT CARDS. The government will exert further pressure by compiling results of these tests in public reports. This will allow comparisons of the performance of states and of the nation's 110,000 public schools. Again the idea is that citizens will demand progress...
...record, it should be noted that the Texas couple and Prince Turki Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, while unsavory characters, did not attempt to exert any improper influence over Harvard's curriculum or threaten its academic integrity...
...from group to mob: a few leaders incite the rest, knotting the rope, throwing it over the limb of a tree. The others allow themselves to be carried passively by the group purpose. Lynch mobs always armor themselves with a sense of their retributive righteousness. They also mean to exert social control by exemplary doses of terror, on the conceit that violence is the only language the victim understands...
...adults in the poll rated press coverage of the war as good or excellent. But the survey also found little support for the media's aggressive tactics. Fully 78% said they were satisfied that the military is not hiding bad news, and 57% said the Pentagon should exert more control over reporting of the war. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last month, 79% of the adults surveyed said they were getting enough information about the war, and 88% supported some censorship of the press under the circumstances...