Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Executive Office of Communities and Development in the Weld Administration, told students that the New Paradigm offers an alternative to the traditional bureaucratic system of government. Instead, the New Paradigm contains five principles--free market orientation, choice, empowerment of the poor, decentralization and emphasis on what works--that Republicans assert will make the government both less expensive and more effective...
...appears from The Crimson's interview on February 1 ("New Group to Express Support for U.S. Troops") that Harry Wilson and Adam Taxin have not been very thorough in their reading of anti-war material. Despite what they assert, there has been a great deal of intelligent, in-depth discussion of why this war is wrong. Of course, there have been slogans as well...
Lockman said that instead of injecting money into the Gulf and continuing to assert the U.S.'s military dominance in the world, Bush must wage war on domestic problems such as education, poverty and the faltering economy...
...Paul Sarbanes, a Maryland Democrat, angrily charges Saudi Arabia with "reaping a windfall gain of something on the order of $40 billion" from the crisis by stepping up oil production and selling crude at higher prices. Other estimates run up to $50 billion a year. Western diplomats in Riyadh assert, however, that such calculations assume a price of $30 per bbl. maintained for a full year and that current prices are well below that. They estimate the Saudi windfall at $8 billion to $10 billion during the first five months of the crisis, which would project to $19 billion...
...historical background boils down totwo conclusions about the Persian Gulf crisis. Thefirst is why Saddam invaded Kuwait. More thangeography or history, the authors assert, Kuwait'srefusal to give Saddam the $30 million he demandedlast spring brought on the invasion...