Word: exerts
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...pooling a number of smaller designer names, the theory goes, licensees can take advantage of manufacturing efficiencies and exert more leverage over retailers, leaving individual designers to do what they do best. But in recent years, fashion powers like Gucci, fearful that broad exposure was killing their cachet, have scaled back licensing. Growing a brand without cheapening it, says Liz Claiborne CEO Paul Charron, "can be a delicate balance. Once you go over that cliff, it's almost irretrievable...
...rich and poor, Christian and Muslim and dozens of other fractures. Even as Arafat struggled last week to deliver on his promise of a cease-fire, controlling anti-Israeli violence promises to be difficult because it also means trying to manage the divisions among Palestinians. It means trying to exert control in a land where impatience, fury and frustration conspire to divide instead of unify...
...have tremendous equity in our brand. We would never do this unless we were fully protected." And looming over the rest of TV is the idea that after the success of sponsored reality series, networks might want to sign up sponsors for dramas and sitcoms, and advertisers could thus exert control over scripts and story lines...
...Richardson also urges the Administration to drop its laissez-faire stance toward OPEC and exert pressure on the cartel to raise exports of crude oil. OPEC voted this month to maintain its output at 24.2 million barrels a day. But it will meet again in July to consider raising prices if Iraq continues to withhold oil from the market as part of a running dispute with the U.N. over sanctions...
...nominations for the Katz Committee have received a great deal of attention, the council appoints student members to a number of Faculty committees, including the Committee on House Life, the Committee on College Life, the Committee on Undergraduate Education and the Standing Committee on the Core Program. These committees exert strong influence over decisions that students care about, such as later party hours, universal keycard access and Core credit for departmental classes...