Word: assertions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students of the Harvard Business School, so that we may promote a more equitable evaluation process in recruiting, hereby assert that recruiters should not request grades in interviews...
...professor was unnecessarily accused of breaching a guideline which does not exist. If the reporter had seriously examined the meaning behind the student resolution, he would not have been able to assert the same accusations. The professor deserves an apology from the reporter and your newspaper. Anthony J. Mayo Assistant Director MBA Program Administration
Jobs are vital, as both candidates assert. But they need to be pressed to ! say how they would produce them. Economic growth is not enough: even in times of general prosperity, large pockets of Underclass poverty persist. A new agency is needed, a revitalized Jobs Corps along the lines of a Work Projects Administration, targeted exclusively at the inner-city unemployed. One cause of the widespread unemployment in inner cities is deindustrialization: the dying out of smokestack industries and their replacement by service industries often located in the suburbs. In the cities, there is a mismatch between skills and opportunities...
Protesters blame the country's sole legal party, the ruling Burma Socialist Program Party, for 26 years of repression and economic ruin. Other analysts believe the military may have simply acted to assert its traditional authority...
...face ablaze with ferocity and ambition, the athletes are bound for Seoul. In a special section, TIME spotlights the five-ring extravaganza, from the most exciting competitors and competitions to the most intriguing bits of lore and trivia. -- Heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Decathlete Daley Thompson are coming to assert a kind of athletic kingship. -- Swimmers Biondi and Janet Evans have appointments in Korea with a hoard of medals -- the question being just how many. -- For a swarm of mitey gymnasts, the contest beyond gold seems to be for the affection of the globe. -- The first superpower showdown in twelve...