Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dailies, few staffers exert more direct influence on readers than the food editor; only the front page and the comics have a bigger readership. Last week 133 of these influential newshens (130) and newsmen (three) gathered at Chicago's Drake Hotel for their tenth annual meeting, where they ate their way through as many as nine meals and snacks a day, dutifully reported on them for their papers. No one was more conscious of their influence than the 31 U.S. food companies who set the tables for them, filled them with food, and garnished the meals with compliments...
...only real opposition the Communists have met so far has been from the French. But with a large section of French Indo-China in their hands, the Communists will be in a position to exert heavy pressure on non-French neighboring countries where governments are weak and inexperienced...
...properly force a resignation. And Mr. Leach can go contrary to the determination of his colleagues. But how long can the rest of us remain silent? How long must it be before the forces wishing to preserve a man's right to first class citizenship (until criminally convicted) exert counter pressure? Counter pressures which unqualifiedly announce that we are not afraid of the existence of two communists or communist sympathizers in our student body and that if some members of the community would take away their opportunities, we would welcome them among us all the more. We would urge that...
...will be marched to the donating station in a unit IS the coercion of conformity. Perhaps, as Mr. Balding contends, this is not "unusual pressure." But it is pressure nevertheless, and a kind of pressure neither the ROTC nor any other department of the University has a right to exert...
...Menace of Momentum. Still in the framework set by foreign policy, the President moved easily to the "inescapable need for economic health and strength if we are to maintain adequate military power and exert leadership for peace in the world." The ultimate economic aims are still a balanced budget, a reduction of taxes, and a checkrein on "the menace of inflation." But "the momentum of past programs' (i.e., Harry Truman's commitments) will delay tax reduction until "we can succeed in bringing the budget under control" (unlikely...