Word: assertiveness
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...Some assert that degree of protection Hawkins is demanding from the school would rob the students of their liberty and privacy...
which, as many people assert, ‘the world has changed,’” Braumoeller said. “I hope to explore how that might be the case...
...others find truth in what Murphy and Heim assert. Says Susan Estrich, University of Southern California law professor and author of Sex and Power, "There's not a successful woman today who doesn't know that sometimes women are your best friends and sometimes they're your worst enemies." Estrich, who was the first female president of the Harvard Law Review, recalls that there was only one female law professor at Harvard at that time. "She used to almost consistently vote against any woman whose name came up for a professorship," says Estrich. "She'd look...
...police, against power. The U.S., in this one-superpower age, has perhaps never been so dominant--economically, militarily, culturally. That strength attracts immigrants, who bring with them new forms of music. And that strength also inspires competition, as musicians and performers in other countries, mindful of the American hegemony, assert their national identities and culture and create new musical genres they can call their own: garage in Britain, kwaito in South Africa, ever evolving forms of reggae in Jamaica. America may be the world's policeman, but citizens of the world--and the New Americans who have come here--have...
...implementation of the system and the abrogation of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, Rice headed the delegation rather than Powell. In the most important dealings with foreign powers, the secretary of state has been repeatedly eclipsed by his own administration. Powell needs to raise his moderate voice and assert his place in forming Bush’s foreign policy...