Word: exerts
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Though the U.S. has a strong interest in strengthening the Kostunica government, it should still exert significant diplomatic pressure on Serbia to ensure that Milosevic will face justice. Failing to insist on this point would send a signal to future war criminals that they do not need to fear extradition so long as the government that succeeds them is democratically elected...
...should not be allowed. But again, beyond legality, we do not find it acceptable for the Ku Klux Klan to march in Skokie, Ill., because it has the highest concentration of Holocaust survivors in the country. We don’t make it illegal, but we protest, chastise and exert social pressure to make clear that behavior of that sort is unacceptable...
...idea behind solar sailing is simple. Although light is made of massless particles called photons, such ephemeral things exert real pressure, especially when they flow from so close a source as the sun. Attach a sail of lightweight Mylar or other material to a spacecraft, set it up in the path of that outrushing energy, and you ought to be able to move in almost any direction...
...alcohol consumption--about a drink a day--can lower the risk of heart disease. Now researchers say the risk is reduced even further in men who carry a gene that slows the rate at which alcohol is metabolized. The longer alcohol stays in the bloodstream, the more it can exert such beneficial effects as raising levels of good, HDL cholesterol. Who has the gene? Mostly white guys; 1 in 6 is thought to carry...
Despite the attention given to student-administration conflicts, however, little attention has been paid here to a shocking development just several weeks ago, when Rice University temporarily shut down KTRU, its student-run radio station. The ordeal revealed how little power--or even moral suasion--university students really can exert...