Word: assert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old space enthusiast, I watched then-President Ronald Reagan deliver a televised speech announcing the venture. Since then, the station has undergone more transformations of structure and purpose than any other project in NASA's history. Meanwhile, my reasons for supporting the station have also evolved. Nevertheless, I assert that the motives for the station's construction today are no less compelling, and possibly even more so, than the motives of yesterday...
Encounters between student members of the Boston Church of Christ and undergraduates are becoming a part of the Harvard experience, affected students and proctors say. University officials say recruitment tactics border on harassment while group members assert the right to share their religious beliefs...
...definitely intend to assert my right tofreedom of speech," he says. And Hrnicek believesthat right extends to inviting fellow students tochurch and to challenging students' religiousbeliefs...
...having a deadly disease afflicting millions of elderly Americans? How does that in any way reflect on his politics, his actions or even his personality? One can well imagine the hue and cry on this campus if Conley ridiculed homosexuals with AIDS; I would go so far as to assert that the editors of The Crimson would refuse to run it. Why, then, is there a double standard for Ronald Reagan, particularly when he suffers from an ailment which he developed through no fault...
...children to school in Gush Khatif in a bulletproof bus. To avoid Arab villages, the vehicle chooses a route that adds an hour to what would be a 30-min. trip. On occasion the driver takes the direct route, but then the bus carries only armed male adults -- to assert the settlers' right, under the self-rule agreements, to travel the road. Netzarim's inhabitants do not complain much, however. "I don't live where it's comfortable," says teacher Shlomit Ziv. "I live where it's important to live...