Word: assert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turn in your Yale envelopes with a hefty check enclosed, then grab a free Harvard-Dartmouth football game coupon and trek to Hanover any way you like to help the team shut up the boisterous hosts, give Dartmouth a losing streak and assert Harvard spirit like you have never imagined...
Having made such warnings, the companies assert that research-on-demand is a legitimate educational aid, not unlike Cliffs Notes. But the line between the two is clearly not so fine. In their investigation, B.U. officials posed as students needing a paper to submit for an English class. The clear intent to plagiarize did not stand in the way of the transaction. In some cases papers were even provided to students with a cover page noting the student's name, the professor's name and the date. If only Cliffs Notes were so helpful...
...wake up! The game's over, and the Bills are winners in a 9-6 yawner that saw no touchdowns and sent the nation to bed early. Federal investigators are now looking into whether they should assert their authority ? something this soporific should be regulated...
...saying Timothy McVeigh had told his defense team that he bombed the Oklahoma City federal building, and that he intended to leave a "body count" in order to "make our point" to the Federal Government. In your story naming the Morning News one of America's best papers, you assert that publishing that story constituted some kind of journalistic faux pas. I find that assessment as puzzling as it is unsupported by fact. The Morning News story was accurate, the documents it quoted were legitimate, and the reporter engaged in neither illegal nor unethical conduct in obtaining the documents. Stephen...
...think you'll find a group in the North End that is starting to ethnically assert themselves," said Paul Scapicchio, a North End resident at the breakfast who is now in the midst of a campaign for the Boston City Council...