Word: exerts
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...this story, said in June that he supported the idea. “People aren’t happy with everything going on,” Dowling told The Crimson. “We’ve all been feeling we’d like to see Harvard exert leadership...
...surprise first-round loss atthe Salem Open in Hong Kong. He dominated long stretches ofthe match with a laserlikeforehand, but his backhand and first serves were oftenerratic. At 1.85 m and 75 kg, Srichaphan's power is an asset and a liability. But he insists he's learning to exert more control over his game. 'I've been playing the same style, but it's more like, hit the ball on the court,' Srichaphan told TIME after his latest match. 'It used to be I would always go for the big shot.' His number 31 ranking already makes...
...help common drugs work more efficiently. Elan Drug Delivery, located in King of Prussia, Pa., pulverizes existing drugs to a size that maximizes the body's ability to absorb them. Naproxen sodium, a pain medication found in products such as Aleve, can take as long as two hours to exert its pain-relieving effect. Nano Systems has developed a crystal version of naproxen, still in clinical development, that works in 15 to 20 minutes. "Using NanoCrystals has not made naproxen a better drug"--just seven to eight times as fast as the commercial product, says Larry Sternson, president of drug...
...never heard a word of Nash in my college courses on New Criticism, So I will now exert all my analytic powers to convert his witticism to Holy Writicism. His forte was the metrical line so unbalanced as to be bonkers, For while other poets, even after they had renounced rhyming as old-hat, would still compose verse in a familiar meter, Nash would keep a line going longer than a Bishop Sheen speech or a Jerry Colonna note, while winding toward some tortured rhyme and keeping readers guessing whether he'd finish up in Yonkers, or call certain people...
...People aren’t happy with everything going on,” Dowling said of the increasing influence of early decision programs. “We’ve all been feeling we’d like to see Harvard exert leadership, and we have a president willing to provide leadership...