Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hopeful entrepreneurs and real-estate moguls assert that the Defense Fund is a legalistic group of obstructionists whose only achievement has been to stymie free enterprise in the city and usurp what should be the prerogative of consumers...
Detractors say the Defense Fund's tactics are heavy handed--last year it hired a high-school student to photograph people entering and leaving Starbucks Coffee to demonstrate "congestion." But supporters assert aggressive methods are necessary to get results...
...Others assert the only result of that vigor has been to leave Square businesses and residents frustrated. "Some people feel that it's a waste of time, energy and money and that the whole process is frivolous," says a board member of the Harvard Square Business Association who asked to remain anonymous...
...revelation--perhaps not least to Depp. The success of the film (his only commercial hit) showed that it was possible to subvert stardom's conventional wisdom, which insists that an actor must assert at least some aspect of his nature that the audience can identify and cling to as he moves from picture to picture. Scissorhands proved to Depp that he could work in his own way. "He transforms himself into the character," says Badham. "He's not going to do what some actors do, and transform the character into themselves...
...have picked up on the trend, and the numbers of ADD-diagnosed children has skyrocketed. Consumption has quadrupled in the past decade, and Ritalin use is five times higher in the United States than in any other country. Some medical experts are willing to go so far as to assert that one in every 20 children is ADD, with a significant number of those being ADHD...