Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert Redford can command $1 million for one film, Fred Lynn is certainly worth $200,000 for 162 games. Now that the players have won a measure of bargaining power and can exert pressure upon the owners, they are demanding and finally receiving a share of the profits...
...There's no attempt here to do anything to change the intercollegiate program," he said, adding that even the new athletic director would be able to do very little to break the control that the varsity coaches and athletic recruiters in the admissions office now exert on the athletic program...
Still, as Chrysler Corp. Chairman John Riccardo said last week: "Every time he [Carter] starts talking prenotification, we start thinking controls." Businessmen and labor leaders are acutely aware of the President's ability to marshal public opinion and exert psychological pressure. Just after Carter...
Instead, the J.P.L. scientists proposed taking advantage of a free and virtually inexhaustible source of power: the pressure of sunlight. Moving at 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) a second, the photons from the sun would exert force on the large sail-just as a handful of sand, thrown against the sail of a toy boat, can push it through the water...
THIS TREND has been consolidated by the nature of the aid process itself. As the U.S. becomes involved with repressive governments abroad, the "stability" of these regimes appears increasingly central to our strategic interests. Yet it is in many of these countries that the need to exert influence against internal repression is greatest. Certainly the domestic policies of U.S.-aided countries like Chile, the Philippines, South Africa and Iran, which Vance and Carter for the most part have left out of their references to human rights violations, merit not only public condemnation but the application of strong economic and political...