Word: assert
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Perhaps not surprisingly, Yeltsin's Russian espionage establishment seems to regard its continued activity abroad as perfectly normal. All industrial countries engage in spying even against friends, officials in Moscow assert; moreover, Western agents continue to snoop after Russian military and space technologies. Following the discovery of the Russian spy ring in Belgium, the SVR calmly explained that Russia had, in fact, been spying. "We can't blame it on anyone else, least of all on the American counterintelligence service," said an SVR spokesman. Then, in a highly unusual tip of his hat to a onetime archenemy, he added...
...self-deluded woman who is steeped more in the ethos of the '50s than the '90s, largely by her own unconscious design. Based on a slender sampling of unfaithful wives, Heyn makes sweeping generalizations about the malleability and self-deception of American wives and their inability to assert their own needs within the marital relationship. All of this -- which is presented with oozing sympathy but is actually quite patronizing -- is used to justify a wife's decision to take a lover to find emotional and sexual succor. While Heyn never directly encourages women to have affairs, she strives to make...
...clear message has come out of this meeting, it is that the 178 nations represented will all have to change if the agreements are to have any teeth. Statements from the poorer nations tended to place all blame for the earth's woes on the rich nations and assert that these polluters should pay the developing world to protect its ecosystems. Speth called this attitude a "prescription for long-term disaster since it will lead people to wait for money before they take actions that are in their own interest." Moreover, because of the billions of dollars in development assistance...
This week the largest international meeting in history, let alone just on the subject of the environment, will convene in Rio de Janeiro, replete with 100 heads of state and a cast of tens of thousands. Some would assert that just having the meeting represents progress, but there is every reason to wish for and expect more. Fortunately, it is no longer possible that it will be naught but an environmental Woodstock or an enormous black hole for diplomatic talent and energy. With a last-minute flurry of negotiation possible, it is as yet unclear how much progress will...
Daniel J. Libenson '92, former chair of the Hillel coordinating committee, says Feldman has often tended to assert an individual rather than group position...