Word: assertiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...play on them to his own advantage. This criticism misses the point of the book entirely. The authors are giving a formula for political success which is not the same thing as public policy, but its prerequisite. No matter what a candidate's ideology or general program, the authors assert he must heed certain realities about the American electorate or lose. The mid-term elections are a case in point...
...Munro felt the team would be up for the game because the players were disappointed with their win over Brown. "Most of them felt we didn't play as well as we should have, so I think they'll be ready to assert themselves," he said...
Constitutional guarantees of civil rights were suspended in Canada last week after French separatists kidnaped officials to dramatize their claim for sovereignty. The southern tip of Italy barricaded itself against the rest of the country to assert a historical fealty to its traditional capital. Northern Ireland continued to smolder among its centuries-old religious hatreds. These and countless other.'atavistic conflicts are now waged with the newest weapons...
...common this disregard for the sovereignty of national boundaries, with continents no different from campuses. Ideology, free-world ideology or revolutionary, sweeps away the restraints of diplomacy. The delineation of the world into good guys and bad guys was lethal in the Vietnam episode to those diplomats trying to assert themselves over military bureaucrats and national security analysts...
...market has become more explicit and more selective. The owner of one of the street's nameless bookstores (titles and literary allusions are for Greenwich Village) observes that two years ago customers paid little attention to the aesthetic quality of models. Now a Playmate standard has begun to assert itself in exotic literature. Most of the customers are men, with the big rush arriving just after business hours when homeward-bound commuters and tourists beginning a night on the town descend on the area. Those women who do come in are easily placed in one of two categories...