Word: assert
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With improvements coming from inside the organization rather than from FAS leadership, members of the PBHA board assert that the College's public service reform has become dominated by a concern for control rather than for accountability...
...think the College students are veryconcerned about whether the administrationcompletely understands the quality of the work andthe importance of the work that goes on in thecommunity," Duehay continued. "I'm going to thankPhillips Brooks House for the...critical work thatthey do and assert my confidence in the program...
...other financial information from falling into unfriendly hands. At the time hardly anyone knew about Whitewater or Hillary Clinton's lucrative commodities trades, and no federal probe of the Clintons' finances was under way. Republicans believe they can embarrass the White House if they can prove--or even assert--that Thomases and the Clintons wanted it to stay that way. Combative, self-important and funny, Thomases, 51, met the Clintons in the 1970s and served as their scheduler in the 1992 campaign. Declining a job in the White House, she instead became the Clintons' top outside kibitzer, terrorizing aides with...
...were raised about the validity of an official photograph released last weekend. "I would insist that the photo was taken Friday," Yeltsin's press secretary sniffed to reporters, though the image bears umistakable similarities to a picture taken three months ago. Yeltsin appeared today on Russian Public Television to assert "the doctors say the recovery will be complete, without any consequences." Still, no independent reports or physician statements have been made since the ailing leader was hospitalized on July 11 withheart trouble...
...Scott O'Grady in Bosnia, but the facts emerging concern the explanations for how he came to be shot down, and they tend to be less uplifting. As the accompanying story reports, Slobodan Milosevic claims to have tried to help make sure O'Grady was returned alive. Pentagon officials assert something quite different: that were it not for Milosevic, no missile would have destroyed O'Grady's F-16 in the first place...