Word: assertation
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...full-fledged democracy, according to Washington, and yet since the election of President Vladimir Putin - whose popularity with voters was derived in no small part from sticking out his jaw in the face of Western criticism over his conduct in Chechnya - it has positioned itself ever more assertively as a competitor to Washington on the global stage. Putin is working aggressively (and not without success) to win Western European support for his opposition to Washington's national missile defense, and is making a concerted effort to restore Moscow's influence in some of the capitals that most perplex U.S. policy...
...walking, tennis, basketball, running and something called "cross-training." The sneaker industry has ingested steroids and hallucinogens, and produced astonishing effects, shoes that look like cumulus clouds, or reptiles of the Amazon basin, or tarted-up space stations. Shoes have Incredible Hulked themselves (or perhaps, Robert Crumbed themselves) to assert an out-of-perspective importance - rendering the foot (an absurd appendage anyway and best underplayed) ridiculously prominent, strange shapes elaborated by irrational patchworks of neon piping and gaudy metallic iridescences...
...Lewis says he would take out his copy of the 1977 agreement to remind officials of their place when Radcliffe tried to assert itself in undergraduate affairs. And by the end of its time as a college, Radcliffe wasn't doing anything a college does--it didn't offer classes, discipline or even feed students...
...Although Demon executives promptly removed the feature after learning of the letter, they said they have not yet decided whether to remain in compliance--or to restore what they term "a parody" and begin a legal battle to assert their right to publish...
...midst of a lemur band--grumpy papa, adoring mom, frisky siblings. His idyllic upbringing is interrupted by a meteor shower--prefiguring the extinction of the species perhaps 150,000 years later--that brings Aladar and his pals back to a barren mainland and the lad's struggle to assert the values of a new masculine style in a sere landscape where the dino herd is ruled by the cranky and politically incorrect Kron (Samuel E. Wright...