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Word: assertation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Likewise, second team All-Ivy selection Black must assert herself down low. If Feaster and Black take the ball up strong in the paint, you might get the Tar Heels into some early foul trouble...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, | Title: Believe | 3/12/1997 | See Source »

...gift was refused because it was to be used to enshrine the study of business management in a majestic new school destined, as Oxford administrators assert, to become a major center for management research in Europe. The Daily Telegraph, a conservative English newspaper, quickly decried the decision as based on an elitist bias described as "an old British disease that lies behind much of our industrial decline into not-so-genteel poverty...

Author: By Joshua A. Katzin, | Title: Cents and Sensibility | 3/12/1997 | See Source »

...rest of Harvard has spent the winter bundled up in dormitories, the men's and women's tennis teams have been tuning up for the crucial dual-match spring season by participating in numerous tournaments. As a result, they are poised and ready to conquer the Ivy League, assert themselves as the dominant team in the Northeast, and get to the big dance--the NCAAs...

Author: By Lev F. Gerlovin, | Title: Tennis Gears Up for Spring | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

Critics of the Defense Fund dispute its interpretation of the law, and some even assert that the group should not be in the business of legal interpretation. One Harvard Square property owner, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he approved of public debate over development, but only in the "proper forum...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, | Title: The Defense (Fund) Never Rests Its Case | 3/5/1997 | See Source »

Developers assert the Fund's grass-roots tactics, while noisily aggressive, serve only to cripple the evolution of the Square. The board member of the HSBA asks: "The Defense Fund can rally people--they can do that well--but at what benefit...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, | Title: The Defense (Fund) Never Rests Its Case | 3/5/1997 | See Source »

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