Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boorstin concludes his trilogy--which was 25 years in the works--by saying that the American sense of mission has dwindled into an unwilling sense of momentum. We, he concludes, have lost our grasp over things while things continue to exert their influence on us. It is time to turn this around. It is time to abandon our democracy of things and to concentrate our attention on finally becoming a democracy of people in hopes of attaining true human freedom...
...presidents and senators and representatives cannot guide the state and be held responsible for its course, how much less can private citizens believe that their opinions and preferences exert any controlling impact on the sovereignty to which they pledge allegiance...
...scope of federal authority is now so vast and diverse that no member of Congress or executive branch department head can be aware of, let alone be able to exert any meaningful influence over, more than a fraction of even those issues and programs within his or her particular sphere of specialized responsibility...
Bowie said that both countries should exert their influence on their Middle Eastern allies to bring about a peace settlement as proposed by the United Nations in November...
Developers could not exert quite as much upward pressure on prices without the help of the tax structure, which enables them to operate on a grander scale than their resources would otherwise permit. An investor who buys or erects a building, for example, can write off depreciation on it at a much faster rate than the actual wear and tear on the property would justify. The write-offs shelter from taxes large amounts of the investor's income from other sources, and he can use this tax-free income to buy more land or put up more buildings...