Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to the council issue, the union has some concerns about the merit raise system, leaders say. HUCTW wants to either overhaul the merit system or just do away with it entirely. Union leaders assert that merit rewards, which can be as high as 3 percent of salary, are being unevenly distributed throughout the different parts of the University. Workers are receiving awards not based on an objective, standard review, but rather on subjective grounds...
Such positive findings come despite the fact that no one is entirely sure how chiropractic manipulation works. Practitioners assert that they are correcting spinal "subluxations," which they describe as misalignments of vertebrae that result in damaging and often painful pressures on nerves in the spinal cord. Because nerves in the cord connect to every organ and body part, such misalignments, they say, can cause problems in the feet, hands and internal organs as well as the back...
...Sexton's own disturbed imaginings -- which, being a good biography, it does. Two of the poet's nieces, Lisa Taylor Tompson and Mary Gray Ford, sent a letter to the New York Times Book Review in which they try to rescue the family from Anne's messy version. They assert the rights of the sane and normal. "We take pride in her art and her accomplishment," the nieces write. "But we strenuously object to the portrayal of people we knew as libidinous, perverted beasts whose foul treatment of this deeply troubled soul drove her to the anguish she felt...
...must include a Jerusalem resident. The face-saving route around the impasse may lie in a house that al-Husseini has just completed in Ayn Siniya, a West Bank village 15 miles north of Jerusalem. Shamir, who has already rejected al- Husseini as a potential delegate, could backtrack and assert that al- Husseini is now a West Banker. And al-Husseini could take his seat, staunch in his conviction that he still speaks for Jerusalemites...
...court, wrote that Russians were "kept from traveling that they may learn nothing, nor see the fashions of other countries" -- an observation that would still have been accurate a few years ago. Even today a powerful Slavophile movement regards Western ways as incompatible with the Russian character. Some Sovietologists assert apprehensively that the Slavophiles are making common cause with hard-line communists to form a strong anti-democratic bloc...