Word: exerts
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...moment while reading himself to sleep five years ago. On a magazine ad covered in his scribblings, Dong's method, dubbed Verity, was born. Engineers had been calculating fatigue life the wrong way for 60 years. Push your hand against a tabletop. Force is the amount of effort you exert; stress is how that force is distributed across your palm. Push your hand against a corner, and the stress becomes impossible to compute reliably. But if you can figure out how much effort you're using (force), stress becomes much easier to calculate. That's Verity's key. The result...
...according to Jury Verdict Research Inc., a private group. The average verdict in product-liability cases now tops $1 million; preliminary figures for 1985 indicate that the average verdict in medical malpractice cases also exceeded $1 million for the first time. These giant awards, insurers say, exert an influence out of proportion to their numbers. They set a target for plaintiffs and their attorneys to shoot for, and move defendants to offer high out-of-court settlements rather than take a chance on what a jury might...
...action adventures as subtle as a Bigfoot truck at a demolition derby. Time and the accretion of power should help erase the stereotypes of women and their films. And be cause the system is changing, not just the women, the next generation of women may not need to exert so much of their energy and talent just to get through the studio gate. The goal for women directors is to persuade the male power elite that they are not some exotic Other, not the Not Quite Us. Just moviemakers...
...problem in Nicaragua in a way that it can be solved, through diplomacy as well as military pressure, and then for the Congress to support the contras as a goad to diplomacy and to do so without attaching conditions that would mitigate or eliminate the pressure they actually exert on the Sandinistas...
...will exert, as in the past, all possible efforts for the sake of the hostages. One of the obstacles is an American attitude that attempts to deal with the kidnapers from a position of strength...