Word: exerts
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...Simpson, of the schools and scholarships committee, says despite the proximity of many of the club members, most of whom, he says, live and work within 1000 feet of each other, the really cohesive and identifiable group in town is not Harvard at all but the Princeton grads who exert a noticeable economic and social power. "If you put ten Princeton men and ten Harvard men in a room together, you'll be able to pick out the Princeton grads immediately," he explains...
Where many alumni do exert a unifying force is in their more casual interests about who gets into the College from the Philadelphia area. Almost all of the Harvard Club's officers were gleeful to see that Harvard this year admitted 23 students from the area, an increase of six over the previous year. A common strain of complaints issued by those involved with the Philadelphia end of admissions is that the metropolitan area should not be lumped in a region including the prolific Long Island school district, because the grouping heightens the competition for places to its fiercest level...
...protection of Executive privilege against disclosure of information on his Administration's decisions, hobbling the ability of Congress to see that laws were being properly enforced and programs carried out. And despite deepening doubts about Nixon's Indochina war policies, Congress was making little effective effort to exert its power to start or stop wars...
...Communists, neutralists and token anti-Communists that would undoubtedly be dominated by the pro-Communist P.R.G. Nobody in Minh's camp believes that the Communists can be denied the lion's share of power, but a few believe that a political settlement will enable the non-Communists to exert some influence. "You can hope to have a solution that will give an opportunity to the non-Communist side to prepare for a new life," says a Minh adviser. "Forming a neutralist regime in the South is better for its non-Communists than the results of a military victory...
Jefferson's yeoman farmer and today's middle American are both on the outside looking in. But the corporations also exert their influence directly, through the authoritarian organization of the shop. Working people in this country, according to Rifkin, are told what to do on the job and off the job. Because so few Americans are self-employed now this corporate influence is greater than the East India Tea Company could ever have dreamt back in the eighteenth century. Rifkin links the two struggles with these gems from Thomas Jefferson...