Word: assertation
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...honor especially for someone as young as him,” he said. Stone is 49. Stone will be departing to teach at Princeton—ranked number 12 among undergraduate engineering programs in 2008 by U.S. News and World Report—next semester, but his colleagues assert his election still holds significance for Harvard, ranked 33. Engineering professor James R. Rice said the honor “raises the visibility level” of the relatively young School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Membership in the NAE is considered to be one of the highest awards for engineers...
...same bed together, although that may be illegal in New York State. We take naps, it's kind of like a very intimate little love affair we've got going. But around Groundhog Day he's most ornery cause it's breeding season and he is trying to assert his dominance so that other males will stay away. He makes an awful screeching sound and then he scent marks my house and I have to go and clean it up. He's looking for a wife. I had one all set up and then we had the current economic situation...
Joan Rivers is certainly right to assert, in the title of her new book, that Men Are Stupid ... And They Like Big Boobs. But the book's 288 pages are better described by the subtitle, which is uncharacteristically dry for Rivers: A Woman's Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery...
...case, Minerva "ran circles around the government," says Brendon Carr, a lawyer with the law firm Hwang Mok Park in Seoul. In the past, explains Carr, the government was usually able to assert its views by strenuously voicing its opinions to newspapers and broadcasters by way of phone calls. But officials didn't know how to reach whomever was behind Minerva except by public announcements - which got the government nowhere. The resulting arrest of Park, Carr contends, is a classic case of bureaucrats with old habits struggling to adjust to the new Korea. "Korea is supposed to be a democratic...
Your industry is often accused of being damaging to women, yet you assert that you are an active feminist. Could you clarify this position? Thayne Stoddard NEW HAVEN, CONN...