Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Silence, then, could be said to be the ultimate province of trust: it is the place where we trust ourselves to be alone; where we trust others to understand the things we do not say; where we trust a higher harmony to assert itself. We all know how treacherous are words, and how often we use them to paper over embarrassment, or emptiness, or fear of the larger spaces that silence brings. "Words, words, words" commit us to positions we do not really hold, the imperatives of chatter; words are what we use for lies, false promises and gossip...
...Anne Klein, Karan worked with her co-designer, Louis dell'Olio, to protect the legacy of the label while moving the business forward. In 1983 they launched Anne Klein II, a successful line of clothes for working women. But, ever restless, Karan was eager to assert her creative identity. Executives at Takiyho, the Japanese conglomerate that owned a majority stake in Anne Klein, urged her to start her own label, but she was uncertain. So in 1984 Takiyho fired her, simultaneously agreeing to back her new company...
Your staff editorial, however, misstates at least two critical facts. First, you assert that HUCTW employees have been "working three years without any salary increases." In fact, under the HUCTW agreement that took effect in July 1989, total average salary increases exceeded 25 percent over the three-year term of the agreement, and thus provided HUCTW employees with substantial economic progress...
Second, your editorial seriously misstates the gap between the parties' positions in the present negotiations for a three-year agreement. You assert that "the dollar amount that is stalling contract negotiations is $123,000 per year." Unfortunately, that is not the case. Although the parties have considerably narrowed the gap with regard to wages for the first year of the new contract, substantial differences remain with regard to the wage package for the full three-year term of the contract...
...Once you have achieved economic success, youdon't feel as compelled to assert yourself as aminority with minority needs," she says...