Word: assert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be the last to assert that heavy metal is for everyone, however. Prudes, wimps and the squeamish should stay away, as well as those who place great emphasis on melody...
...small band of physicists, including Clauser and Stapp, are disturbed by their profession's priorities, believing that the anomalies of quantum theory deserve much more investigation. Instead of chasing ever smaller particles with ever larger accelerators, some of these critics assert, physics should be moving in the opposite direction. Specifically, science needs to find out whether the elusiveness of the quantum world applies to objects larger than subatomic particles...
Humor is often in short supply in books by writers who assert they are funny. This is not second grade, and the territory Wasserstein covers has been strip-mined by those who preceded her -- Nora Ephron, Ellen Goodman and Anna Quindlen. A piece about the split between women who shave their legs and those who don't would have to come up with some dazzling insights to merit another look. Ditto painted nails, being fat or single...
...Sinise as Tom Joad tells her that wherever people are organizing for freedom and a better day, he will be there, he does not ooze nature's-aristocrat nobility like Henry Fonda on celluloid. His is the tough, nervy attempt of a frightened man facing imprisonment or death to assert that his struggle has had some meaning...
Friends eulogize Duarte as the man who, as one close adviser put it, "started a process, a tendency toward democracy." Detractors, such as Jesuit scholar Ignacio Martin Baro, assert that "history will remember Duarte as the President who mortgaged the sovereignty of his country to the Americans." Duarte may best be remembered, however, as the leader who could not live up to his own best intentions...