Word: asserting
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Administration officials assert that these glowing predictions rest on unprovable assumptions. Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal claims that the Steiger amendment would cost the Government $2.2 billion in revenue a year. He and other critics insist that there are more effective ways to stimulate investment: reducing the tax on corporate profits, increasing the tax credit that companies get on spending for new plant and equipment, and easing the tax on dividends...
Miro has written, too, of the artist as a vessel: "Rather than setting out to paint something, I begin to paint, and as I paint, the picture begins to assert itself or suggests itself under my brush." This consciousness of his artistic role is completely at variance with the aesthetics of bourgeois art that Rene Magritte and Jean Scutenaire decried for lending art the characteristics of a superior activity, despite its removal from the real-life concerns and activity of most people. They criticized bourgeois individualism in art because "the middle-class artis claimsto express elevated sentiments relevant only...
NOTWITHSTANDING ITS MEASURED, impartial tone and its concentration on national trends and general educational advances, American Higher Educationis fueled by its author's determination to assert the accomplishments of the post-World War II years, a determination born out of the role Pusey played in many of those achievements. For many readers, the most interesting section of the book will be the chapter dealing with the conflicts in education. As a college president during the Red-hunting years whose opposition to McCarthy gained him national prominence, and as one whose career eventually foundered on the Harvard Strike of 1969 Pusey...
...Carter. That is a gross oversimplification. Two very different calamities befell the two earlier Presidents; Johnson was swept aside by a deep historic groundswell against the Viet Nam War, while Nixon was engulfed by a series of misdeeds and deceptions of his own making. If Carter fails to assert stronger leadership, and to project a sense and a pattern of purpose, the premature talk about a one-term presidency may yet become pertinent. But he is a long way from political destruction or electoral defeat...
Your article on lawyers [April 10] distorts a speech I made 20 years ago. It was not made, as you assert, "before an appreciative audience of Stanford law students." It was delivered at a seminar on protracted cases for U.S. judges. My speech contrasted judicial control with noncontrol of the protracted Government antitrust case. I did not articulate or advocate the "wear-'em-down" philosophy as your article states...