Word: exert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ramponi: "Now that they are too rich, the drug lords will start investing everywhere: in industry, in the stock market." In the U.S. some lawmakers have begun worrying about the impact of billions of drug dollars invested in U.S. institutions and wonder what influence the drug barons might eventually exert...
...human community, if it is to last long, must exert a sort of centripetal force, holding local soil and local memory in place," Kentucky farmer- philosopher Wendell Berry told Iowans last year in a lecture on the work of local culture. "Country people more and more live like city people, and so connive in their own ruin. More and more country people, like city people, allow their economic and social standards to be set by television and salesmen and outside experts...
There are no Americans left in Lebanon now, but the killing goes on. The U.S. tried to exert pressure on Israel to pull out of Lebanon, and yet you say that America is an imperialist country...
Herein lies the true danger of aerobics. Society can withstand the few injured bodies and broken souls of status-seeking aerobisizers. But what happens when instructors utilize the mental power they exert over Harvard students, particularly during the left leg kicks" Will they take over the world...
Moscow would not even need to resort to tanks and troops to dampen the Baltic enthusiasm for secession. It could exert pressure just by slapping an embargo on fuel and raw-material shipments. Yet there are numerous way stations of sovereignty on the road to independence. Some Baltic economic thinkers believe, for example, that the region could turn into a clearinghouse between East and West, where Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians could serve as go-betweens for Westerners eager to open up the Soviet market. "The Baltic states may not be as exotic as Hong Kong, but they make a good...