Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continued to exert pressure on the Harvard Corporation to share the problems and responsibilities of providing people with housing with the City of Cambridge. They, Harvard and M.I.T., were forced to get into the Cambridge housing act. Both of those Universities built about 1,000 apartments for Cambridge elderly. It is said that I, as a City Councilor, suggested that Harvard Yard be paved and turned into a parking lot. Again, the Harvard Corporation responded to pressure by creating a parking lot across the Charles at the Harvard Business School and using a shuttle bus service...
...long run, the United States must exert its influence to effect the return of democratic rights and institutions to South Korea. In addition to the power the U.S. holds as the principle foreign military presence in Korea, it gained leverage by moving swiftly in the current crisis to preserve stability on the Korean peninsula, placing U.S. forces in a state of readiness to forestall any North Korean adventures. The U.S. must use its diplomatic and economic leverage to act as an honest broker with the current rulers of South Korea, pressing for the release of political prisoners...
...depart, and as we passed the judges, they promptly informed the crowd that the last boat in the 1979 Head of the Charles Regatta was on its way. A senior in our boat sighed at this point, "Just think, this is the last time I'll ever have to exert myself...
Schmidt encouraged students to exert pressure on their local Congressmen...
...goal of the corporate campaign, Rogers says, "is to cause those institutions that are tied to J.P. Stevens--either through investments or in the form of corporate connections--to exert influence on the company to recognize the rights and dignity of workers and to sit down and bargain in good faith, realizing that their own real interest is the interest of workers...