Word: assert
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...people have long been limited in what they can say to each other. The United States Supreme Court decided in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire that certain "epithets [are] likely to provoke the average person to retaliation, and thereby cause a breach of the peace." The decision goes on to assert...
...help him assert leadership in these areas, Bush needs a strong Secretary of the Environment. The obvious candidate is William Reilly, the EPA chief. A longtime conservationist, Reilly has been forceful in environmental causes, but he has sometimes been thwarted by White House chief of staff John Sununu and other Administration officials. Sununu, for example, has been skeptical about the threat of global warming, an issue that deeply concerns Reilly. The White House now needs to pull together on the environmental front. With broad support in Congress for an Environmental Department, advocates hope it can be created by April...
...quietly passed the word that however much other Latin American nations might protest in public, their leaders were privately pleased that American troops had stepped in to oust General Manuel Antonio Noriega. A month later, with U.S. soldiers still patrolling Panama City and the U.S.-installed government struggling to assert its control, support for the invasion is beginning to fray. Today there is every indication that the invasion is doing new damage to U.S.-Latin American relations, which had only just begun to recover from the strains of the Reagan era. Last week signs of the hemispheric hostility were legion...
...evidence leading to his indictments. The State Department was split between a get-Noriega faction and diplomats who were nervous about the potential loss of intelligence assets in Panama. By the time of the indictments, though, it was obvious that Noriega had gone out of U.S. control. Investigators assert that the millions he was by then receiving from the Medellin drug cartel dwarfed his CIA payoffs...
Even before the Ceausescus were executed, civilians had moved to assert authority over the army as well as the country. Television, which once beamed | out only the glory of Ceausescu, then helped topple him, became the heart and voice of the new government. The National Salvation Front gathered at the studio to announce that the revolution had triumphed -- and set about trying to steer it into calmer channels. The Front ordered all those who had seized or been issued firearms to turn them in and instructed revolutionary committees that had sprung up around the country to be "immediately subordinated...