Word: exert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tone of Bush's remarks suggested the United States may attempt to exert pressure for compromise on Israeli Prime Minister Titzhak Shamir, who arrives in the U.S. tomorrow and confers with Bush on Thursday...
...biggest customers, using the network of banks and thrifts to finance ventures in which he held hidden interests. "He saw the thrifts as one big gold mine, an endless pit of money," says Joseph Cage, a U.S. Attorney in Louisiana who prosecuted Beebe. Rather than exert his ownership outright, Beebe often held control behind the scenes. One of his tactics was to stake friends like the high-flying financier Don Dixon, who relied on Beebe's backing to acquire Texas-based Vernon Savings & Loan in 1982 and rode the institution to a spectacular collapse...
Despite evidence that the U.S. is usually reluctant to exert pressure on Israel in matters of war and peace and doubts that Israel would listen anyway, Hussein sees Bush's experience in foreign affairs as reason for Arab optimism. "The U.S. can do much with Israel, and it needs to do much in the times ahead," he said. Bush "knows the area. With all due respect, I had many meetings with President Reagan, ((but)) he had other priorities. Of all the problems the world has, ((the Middle East)) is the most dangerous...
...gave Sudan $16 million in emergency relief this year, including 32,000 tons of food. But only half has actually been delivered. Western governments have been reluctant to exert on the Sudanese government the kind of concerted pressure they applied to neighboring Ethiopia when the Marxist regime there was hindering famine relief in another civil war. They fear criticism would strain their fragile ties to a government strategically placed between Ethiopia and Libya and only strengthen the hand of the fundamentalist National Islamic Front, an important power in the Khartoum coalition...
...University also can make its presence felt on various city zoning committees. Critics say such representation on local boards gives the University another way to exert undue influence on certain issues...