A1 NASA Cites Political Pressure Top political appointees in the NASA press office exerted pressure during the 2004 campaign to cut the flow of news releases on glaciers, climate and pollution, according to public affairs officers at the agency.
That office was established in response to the bankruptcy of Orange County, Calif., in 1994, but it never gave federal regulators anything like the kind of authority over municipal finance that the agency exerts over corporations.
Power exerts itself and destroys us.
Mr. Donilon, 58, a central member of Mr. Obama's foreign-policy team since he first took office, has exerted sweeping influence, mostly behind the scenes, on issues from counterterrorism to the reorientation of America to Asia from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
These inputs usually form the basis for a sufficient patient briefing, which takes place in a "front-office area" exerting profound influence on patient satisfaction and, probably, treatment outcome [ 2, 3].
What's more, by March, a number of reporters — including Seymour M. Hersh, in these pages — had published stories about this dubious intelligence and the pressure that the Pentagon and the Vice-President's office had been exerting on the C.I.A. to square the evidentiary circle.
He was one of 16 Penn law professors who signed a letter criticizing the civil rights office for having exerted "improper pressure upon universities to adopt procedures that do not afford fundamental fairness".
The fund's low profile can be laid directly at the door of the Orwellian BBC press office which seems to exert a complete stranglehold over the whole corporation.
Invoking the name of the South American liberator Simón Bolívar, he campaigned for office by promising to exert more control over the state oil company and to redirect much its wealth to the 80percentt of the Venezuelan population living in poverty.
Yet box-office performance can exert a distinct pull on the awards process.
