Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notion that the study of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim or Sigmund Freud (all "naughtily left-wing writers") is a waste of time, it is astonishingly boorish. Not only did their writings exert some influence on modern society, but Davis' discipline owes its existence and many of its directions to such writers...
...party, it was often said (including by one of Gorbachev's closest advisers as recently as November), was the one "all-union" institution that could exert the gravitational pull necessary to counteract the many centrifugal forces. Superimpose a multiparty system on a multinational empire, and soon Moscow would be the capital of a rump state called Russia...
Atkins called the support that rich people often express for refugees "theoretical." A "struggle" between the established residents and the refugees often takes place because of the initial economic drain refugees exert upon community educational and social resources, he said...
...result, Roosevelt says, Harvard rarely tries to exert influence over individual lawmakers...
...House and the Senate, the Harvard name does not carry much weight. Many lawmakers come from blue-collar backgrounds and tend to distrust the University. Most efforts by Harvard to exert pressure on the state would be ineffective, if not counterproductive, Barrett says...