Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are two ways an immigrant can assimilate into American life. One approach is to embrace mainstream culture, the sitcoms, the Coca-Cola, the straight-ahead pop music and, of course, the English language. The other way is to assert your own identity, your own heritage, and compel the rest of America to taste your spices, to dance to your Afro-Cuban grooves. Estefan has done both. From the mid-1980s on, her work with the Miami Sound Machine consisted mostly of processed American-style dance music seasoned with punchy Latin rhythms. "She was the first to take Latin-influenced...
...AIDS, the FDA had begun to toughen its inspection of blood banks. In the process, its field inspectors found widespread and potentially dangerous problems with the way the Red Cross tracked blood donors and tested blood for infectious agents. In 1988, under FDA pressure, the Red Cross agreed to assert tighter control. But by the time Mrs. Dole arrived three years later, the organization had made little progress. Dr. Jeffrey McCullough, then serving a temporary stint as senior vice president for biomedical services, remembers vividly the meeting where he told Mrs. Dole that they were in the midst...
Regional political observers say the Yankee Primary was intended to assert New England's influence on the national nominating process...
...Crimson will try to turn that disappointment into motivation for next year. Returning four starters to the lineup, Harvard will look to definitively assert itself over Brown and rise to the next level...
...Crimson's skills coalesced at the end of the season just in time to assert its power in the Ivy League Tournament...