Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...previous games, the rookie spotlight seems to have shined most brightly on other recruits. Francie Waslton, who netted three goals in the first two Ivy competitions, and erstwhile-icewoman Joey Alissi had already begun to assert their roles as freshman offensive performers...
Some Israeli military planners contend that the Golan and West Bank have become more, not less, essential to security. Without early-warning devices there, they assert, warheads could hit Israel before the civilian population could be warned to head for shelter. Even so, some military men speculate that if Israel kept its early-warning devices and troops in numbers sufficient to thwart a surprise Syrian attack, it could withdraw partially, keeping only a slice of territory running 15.5 miles east from the pre-1967 border...
...Undergraduate Council to refrain from taking a position in the Confederate flag debate. Taking a position on either side of the issue is and should be incompatible with the mission of the Undergraduate Council. It will only serve as a catharsis for those who feel the need to assert their own self-righteousness...
...elected. These are times that prove Proudhon's formulation: "The fecundity of the unexpected far exceeds the statesman's prudence." Americans should enjoy the moment of victory for just that long, a moment, and after that, look beyond the war and consider that their country cannot for very long assert its authority, moral or military, unless it can bring its realities at home into closer alignment with its persona in the world...
...week. Just three months after George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev signed a CFE agreement, U.S. officials apparently felt that the Soviets have been giving them highly suspect estimates of weapons in the treaty region and decided to postpone further formal meetings until March 21. In secret documents, the Soviets assert that they have only 21,000 tanks in Europe; the U.S. says the real number is 42,000. The U.S. expected a tally of 58,000 armored combat vehicles, but the Soviets counted only 28,000. The Soviets say they have only 13,000 pieces of artillery in the area...