Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apparently loves trying to top himself, because there are three such sequences here. They are done the old-fashioned way, by stunt drivers, which gives these thrill sequences an immediacy, a nervy elan that special-effects techies can't quite generate on a computer screen. They also assert the only message this film wants to convey, which is that in action movies it's not what you say but how smashingly you say it that counts...
Most Republicans are correct when they say that Ken Starr's investigation is not about sex. But they are wrong when they try to assert that it is about perjury, subornation of perjury and obstruction of justice. Since day one, the investigation has been about politics. When boiled down to its essence, it's about a group of individuals who think Bill Clinton should have never come to power...
...from that legal standpoint, obstruction may be the weakest link in Starr's case. The independent counsel has accepted Monica's assertion that she, not Bruce Lindsey, wrote the "talking points." And the discrepancies between Betty Currie's testimony and Monica's -- which Starr seizes on as evidence of Presidential influence -- certainly cut the other way too. "Starr has relied on Lewinsky's version of events as accurate and has reported Currie's contradictory evidence dismissively," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon. "But any good defense lawyer would assert that Currie's credibility is greater than that of Lewinsky...
...solidifying as the date with Starr drew nearer. The spectacle of Lewinsky running the gantlet of cameras into the federal courthouse, the rumors that the DNA tests on the dress would prove his undoing, the growing consensus that he was walking into a perjury trap, led outsiders to assert that he would soon have no choice but to confess all--and insiders to suspect essentially the opposite: that he would admit not a single thing, deny any romance, dismiss Lewinsky as a fantasizing stalker and even consider refusing to turn over a blood sample that could match...
Although many said worker conditions have improved over the past decade, union heads in California assert that life is still miserable for workers...