Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposed nuclear reactor in Seabrook, N.H., now in the initial stages of construction, and attempt to restore the site to its natural state. Seabrook has great personal importance for me. It is a vision of people living in safety, health and freedom. It is a chance to assert that vision through action. Seabrook is a way to afford the fear that we must afford...
...General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically-elected government of President Salvador Allende." One of the purposes of the report is to air "the conflicts between the officially stated human rights policy of the U.S. government and the behavior of private U.S.-based corporations and banks." Moffitt and Isabel Letelier assert that without private bank assistance Pinochet could never have turned down a 1977 U.S. government offer of $27.5 million in economic assistance, a loan with attached human rights concessions. In 1976, the U.S. Congress, over the opposition of former President Gerald R. Ford, voted to stop all military assistance...
...have extremely high regard for Vance," he says. "I like him enormously as a human being. He's done a very good job in conducting foreign policy. His strengths are his fairness, his sound judgment and his patience. If he has any weakness it's that he doesn't assert himself enough. There can be free debate within the Government, but there has to be one recognizable voice that speaks for American foreign policy...
Milan Psychiatrist Dino Origlia has concluded that all the amateur nudity on TV represents "the frustrated woman's revenge. These women still feel the need to assert themselves, to be the center of attention." Among other things, he says, the phenomenon shows "how we Italians have not yet overcome our sexual problems. This puts the clock back a century to keyhole sex." Other experts disagree. Says University of Trento Sociologist Gian Paolo Fabris: "Sex on the tube produces no guilt complexes. On the contrary, it creates an atmosphere of harmless complicity among the most repressed couples and can even...
Since 1973 the price of aluminum has jumped from 25? per Ib. to 53?. The gap between supply and demand, some industry leaders assert, will drive the price considerably higher, at least to 60? by the early 1980s. Earnings of the big four, Alcoa, Alcan, Reynolds and Kaiser, which control nearly three-quarters of the U.S. market, have climbed sharply. With considerable understatement, W.H. Krome George, chief executive of Alcoa, says, "For once in our life we have been fairly lucky. Things are rolling along pretty good...