Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aeneas team's management style is'responsible but hands off," Brokaw said. "They donot exert significant day to day control in anyway," he added...
...President Bush wins re-election, Frank said, the gay community must Continue to exert pressure as it has in the past...
Miranda's book may be uneven, but any novel with a silver-armed villain who suffers from an inferiority complex, an ecclesiastical hero driven by lust and armed with Gongora and a rapier tongue and set in a city where the whores exert the most influence--is irresistible...
...family fun. In the years that followed, the women who were somehow able to promote their careers beyond those pages--these being women only of exceptional talent, like Robertson herself--nonetheless found themselves significantly underpaid, and unable to advance to any positions from which they would be able to exert power and influence over determining what was "fit to print" in the Times...
...empire collapses. The economy constricts painfully. But ordinary life -- and extraordinary life -- goes on. People still write novels and environmental treaties, design solar cells and stage sets, orchestrate symphonies and ad campaigns. They still care about tossing a salad or a baseball superbly. From science to show biz, they exert all the passion, wit, ingenuity, game playing -- and, yes, the ego, venality and damn-fool silliness -- that keep the human enterprise steaming along so entertainingly...