Word: assertation
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...having a deadly disease afflicting millions of elderly Americans? How does that in any way reflect on his politics, his actions or even his personality? One can well imagine the hue and cry on this campus if Conley ridiculed homosexuals with AIDS; I would go so far as to assert that the editors of The Crimson would refuse to run it. Why, then, is there a double standard for Ronald Reagan, particularly when he suffers from an ailment which he developed through no fault...
University officials assert, however, that it was not only the twists and turns and juggling of Rudenstine's busy schedule that led to the fatigue...
...children to school in Gush Khatif in a bulletproof bus. To avoid Arab villages, the vehicle chooses a route that adds an hour to what would be a 30-min. trip. On occasion the driver takes the direct route, but then the bus carries only armed male adults -- to assert the settlers' right, under the self-rule agreements, to travel the road. Netzarim's inhabitants do not complain much, however. "I don't live where it's comfortable," says teacher Shlomit Ziv. "I live where it's important to live...
...solution? Some readers might think that I'm leading up to some sort of readjustment of term periods, or massive governmental attempts to educate the populace or increase voter turnout. Or even something as abhorrent as tests to determine if a citizen is sufficiently informed to vote. I firmly assert that these measures would be ideologically wrong as well as practically ineffective...
...Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that, "If the Princetonian had wanted to assert in sturdy chorus that his college...was deliberately and passionately America's norm in ideals of conduct and success, he would have gone to Yale...