Word: assert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...child could have fought off the virus, especially since a baby's immune systems isn't fully functional until the age of 18 months or so. Moreover, the HIV in the baby's and the mother's blood is genetically different. That could be, as the UCLA researchers assert, because the mother's virus wasn't studied until a year after the birth, and had time to mutate. Even if the baby did pick up HIV from his mother, that doesn't mean he was infected. Immunologists know that living cells from mothers often get passed along to newborns, where...
...Social Security really such an untouchable issue? As younger workers become a larger proportion of the electorate, they can be expected to assert their own interest in the matter, which is not the status quo. And it's even possible to hear at least a peep of compromise from the American Association of Retired Persons, the huge lobby that has treated most prior talk about changing Social Security the way the National Rifle Association of America reacts to new gun-control bills. "It's probably true that in the future we're going to have to lower benefits...
...October the World Bank released an international study of pension systems that deemed the Chilean approach instructive not only to the developing countries the bank serves but also to advanced industrial nations with troubled government-financed pension systems, such as France, Germany, Italy--and the U.S. Social Security scholars assert that there is not the same urgency for change in the U.S. But, says Robert Genetski, a Chicago-based economic consultant, "when the American worker finds out that the typical worker in Chile has more assets than we have, the American worker is going to get very upset...
...Amendment fundamentalism. "Christians from the 1960s on have taken a major beating in the legal arena and have lost a lot of their liberties," argues Mathew Staver, president of the six-year-old Liberty Counsel in Orlando, Florida. "In the '80s we discovered we must enter the mainstream to assert those liberties." Along with a number of school-prayer cases, the Liberty Counsel has advocated free speech in an amicus Supreme Court brief on behalf of the Ku Klux Klan, which wants to erect a cross on the Ohio statehouse grounds. Other legal groups focus on defending antiabortion activists, while...
Unfortunately, much of the prose suffers from an acute seventies tinge. Describing the typical user's reaction, Grinspoon writes. marijuana "heightens (or so they assert) capacity to feel, to appreciate, to perceive, AND TO SHARE." The Brady undertones elude poor Grinspoon, but the subtext of 70s culture adds to the book's entertainment value. This increases with the level of THC in your system...