Word: assert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protested against letting him walk around free, the best Reno and U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White could think of was to arrest him on a charge of violating immigration laws. Federal authorities say no startling piece of new evidence or major new witness knitted their case together. Rather, they assert, good police work did it: the sifting and analysis of many bits of information gradually filled out a picture of far- reaching conspiracy...
Deep bonds are forged. Prejudice is fought (the town, which has always treated McLeod as a geek, mistakes pedagogy for pederasty). Wounds are finally healed. And the sentimentally impressionable will have a good cry as outcasts assert their humanity and teach the smug and the hypocritical a thing or two about simple decency...
...joint response. Starting in September, they will attach a warning label -- DUE TO SOME VIOLENT CONTENT, PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED -- to shows with high levels of mayhem. Over the past two weeks, network executives have trooped before junketing TV journalists in Los Angeles to stress their concerns about violence -- and assert that they aren't the only ones to blame. Next Monday a heavyweight lineup of TV producers, network executives and other industry bigwigs will meet to explore the violence issue at a daylong "summit conference" sponsored by the National Council for Families and Television...
...acts or statements and marriages." He included among his targets anyone who "demonstrates a propensity to engage in homosexual acts." These were fighting words, since one point of the six-month study was to give Nunn his time in the sun, days of televised hearings in which he could assert his authority over the process. Out of this came a willingness on Nunn's part to live with "Don't ask, don't tell" -- and, it was assumed, to keep lawmakers from tinkering with the policy. All seemed well until Nunn's speech, which came across as a pre-emptive...
...June, Kimberly found a court that agreed. If a minor in Florida can choose abortion, ruled circuit court judge Stephen Dakan, "then surely a minor child has the right to assert a constitutional privilege to resist an attempt to remove her from the only home she has known . . . and declare her the child of strangers." In August, he will decide on visitation rights for the Twiggs. If all goes as planned, the legal maneuvering will be over by the time Kimberly starts the ninth grade. Says Kimberly: "I want my life back -- the way it was before the Twiggs...