Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effectiveness, however, has already been called into question. The T.U.C. is not a monolith, but a loose federation that can exert only moral force over the individual unions it represents. The limits of its power were demonstrated when, less than a week after the T.U.C.'s pledge of cooperation, 1,800 workers at Ford Motor plants in Dagenham and Halewood went on strike. They are demanding further cost-of-living adjustments after the current escalator agreements expire next month. The walkout has already affected another 15,000 workers at the two plants. Says Arthur Flicker, spokesman for the shop...
...little marches in downtown Saigon, in which they were outnumbered 10 to 1 by police. They have now formed an organization called the Forces for National Reconciliation. The Buddhists carefully refrained from labeling the "force" a political party in order to avoid legal harassment, but they clearly intend to exert renewed political influence. Says Senator Vu Van Mau, leader of a Buddhist group in the Thieu-dominated Senate: "I think in a democracy-and Thieu claims that this is a democracy-that he must take account of the opinion of the people. He must explain himself...
Theirs is the kind of male mentality that is incapable of understanding any man who is not fond of violence. Despite a tendency to blame the emotional problems of American youth on "Mom," these men exert relentless efforts to make their sons "real men." If you want to be brave in their eyes, and no boy wants to be a "chicken" to his father, you must oppose violence only if it springs from minority frustrations and admire it at all other times...
...Administration has also tried to exert influence upon him. One White House official telephoned him to say: "John, it's time for a head count." But Rhodes refused to order it because he was determined to avoid arm twisting...
Cobden put the argument at its sunniest: "If the minority are discontented with the existing state of things, let them set to work and exert themselves until they become the majority." Fine, unless a minority is of a different race, religion or culture, and has no hope of be coming a majority. Then there must either be continual friction, as in Northern Ireland or Cyprus, or else a guarantee of protected minority rights that a majority cannot overturn. John C. Calhoun believed the South to be such a permanent minority in need of protection. So he argued for a "concurrent...