Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less. "This campaign is associating Marlboro with exactly the type of rigorous activity that most appeals to adolescents," asserts Matt Myers, counsel to the Coalition on Smoking and Health, who first saw the train ads in his 13-year-old son's copy of Sports Illustrated. "It is another trick to make smoking the way teenage boys assert their independence and proclaim their masculinity. And it's another reason why restrictions should be placed on tobacco advertising and marketing...
...falls under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938 and the food-additives amendment of 1958. According to those laws, olestra can be approved if it carries a "reasonable certainty of no harm" when used as intended. If olestra really makes people sick, as Jacobson and others assert, the agency might well reject it. But after much fretting over the precise definition of harm (and diarrhea as well), a majority of advisory-committee members decided that while the gastrointestinal and nutrient-blocking effects may be inconvenient and even unpleasant, they're almost certainly not harmful...
...reject the deal and seek enforcement of the subpoena. Soon afterward, the White House signaled that only one of the disputed conditions really mattered: other investigative bodies, as well as independent counsel Kenneth Starr, must agree that even if the notes were turned over, the White House could still assert attorney-client privilege with respect to other conversations between the Clintons and their lawyers...
...Harvard students to identify real bulletins and damages the credibility of the HUPD. The poster in question is realistic enough that it could provide reasonable confusion as to the identity of a potentially dangerous criminal and therefore impair the HUPD investigation. We urge removal of all fake posters and assert that they have no right to be hanging in public...
...place full responsibility on the broad shoulders of Harvard's front-court would be unfair. Harvard's guards need to assert more pressure on their counterparts, as well...