Word: swaying
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...second directly concerns students. Since the Internet is disproportionately available through the nation's universities, the policies set by those universities have tremendous sway over the general public. Georgia State University, for instance, allows racist pages to be posted through its web server with a disclaimer that the views are not necessarily those of Georgia State...
...rally which brought hundreds of students to the John Harvard statue on December 7 vented student and faculty anger but did not sway Lewis or Professor of Government and Sociology Theda Skocpol, who heads the newly-created student-faculty committee on public service...
...golden child but has started a propaganda campaign against him, saying his family was "notorious among their neighbors" and the boy himself once drowned a dog, which the official Xinhua news agency proclaims is "a heinous crime in the eyes of the Buddha." Such assertions are unlikely to sway Tibetans to Beijing's choice...
...Paris in the next week or two. But first Clinton hopes to win the support of a skeptical Congress. He was to begin his selling job to an equally suspicious nation this Monday with a televised speech. The arguments he and Vice President Al Gore will use to sway Congress and the public center on the need to halt a bloody and destabilizing war in Europe, to maintain U.S. leadership in the world and to play its role in the forefront of nato, lest the alliance fall apart. To help push the proposal, Administration officials will emphasize their promise that...
This situation makes recruiting stressful for coaches, who must find prime athletes who can also hurdle the academic standards set by the admissions office. But the relative lack of sway that coaches have over who gets in makes Harvard seem a more relaxed alternative to the high-pressure recruiting of traditional athletic powers like Snowden's alternative suitor, Brigham Young...