Word: exert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That is why the council is in a position to exert careful but effective influence on tenure decisions. The council, with its substantial authority over the CUE course evaluation guide, controls the apparatus to compile and present information about the teaching ability of junior professors when they come up for tenure. The faculty already uses the guide informally in tenure considerations. Now, the council should devote effort to making CUE evaluations useful to tenure reviewers, and the faculty should make clear to all teachers that they have a responsibility to submit to CUE review. Maybe students shouldn...
...economic freedoms that we enjoy, the ethics of American business can improve only when individuals decide to let ethical considerations take their proper place in the policy process. Executives will have to allow such considerations their place, even if it affects the bottom line, and they'll have to exert pressure on their peers to do the same. Until that happens, the questions confronting Harvard MBA's in their future careers will continue to be: what can we get away with? or, how can we limit the damage...
...course, I'm hardly the person to preach to a conference room full of Blacks. I can't even take it strong to the basket. Still, I'm concerned. In order for Blacks to exert influence, we've got to get the money. Jobs in investment banking were for me always one step on the way to getting rich, not the way. Stuck in a dead-end, no-power job, waiting for the secretary to bring the cheese croissants, is hardly...
...chief rival is Montazeri, who has known Khomeini for at least 40 years and whose power base is the vast network of clerics who exert enormous influence over the population. It is widely believed that Montazeri's aides maintain close contacts with the Lebanese Shi'ite captors of the American hostages and that his militant supporters worked to block the efforts of Rafsanjani to trade arms for the captives held in Lebanon. According to this theory, Rafsanjani retaliated by arresting Hashemi and his associates on a variety of charges, and the hard-liners in turn put an end to Rafsanjani...
...myself I can exert at best only minimalpressure, but I want to get the students and thecommunity at large involved in considering theseissues. That can have an influence," Weissmansaid...