Word: assertiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Page was determined to win his match with Terrell and he tried several stalling ?ac?ies before the match to assert his dominance on the court. Terrell, on the other hand, remained calm and rushed to an early lead on perfectly placed deep smashes and three-wall nicks...
...Senate wishes to assert itself, it can begin, as Senator Mathias has suggested, by repealing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and encouraging the President to seek a political solution to the war. At present the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorizes an almost boundless extension of the war into the North. The bombing has temporarily ceased, but "as long as the resolution remains on the books, it may be interpreted as authorizing further attacks...
...forced liberal Senators to split with the coalition. In former days, the Mathias resolution would have seemed treasonable. Congress feared to speak openly with the President because to do so would jeopardize "major national interests" or "let the troops down." Today Senators can even imply, if not boldly assert, that the President has usurped the Constitution...
...part per million, are safe. The answer, from scientifically controlled studies in many countries, is an unequivocal yes on the basis of the evidence. But strident opposition has come from Christian Scientists, the Ku Klux Klan, the John Birch Society and a handful of physiologists and dentists. They assert that fluorides (among other effects) increase the incidence of mongolism, cancer, allergies, and sterility, and even make the teeth fall...
...directors of the exhibition assert that the time bridging the traditional periods of Romanesque and Gothic has its own style, distinct from the other two. With an aesthetic between the geometric conception of Romanesque and the lush stylization of Gothic, the artists of the era 1200 depict graceful, expressive bodies that never overstep the refinement of their form...