Word: asserting
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...financial community, and most businessmen and bankers hailed him as one of their own. Miller will have to be a miracle man to keep that universal favor; his cheering section includes both people who predict that he will be less tight on money than Burns, and others who assert with equal confidence that he will prove just as conservative and independent as the chairman he replaces. But for the moment the only discordant notes came from some American grumblers who think that Carter should have chosen a banker or economist rather than a corporate chieftain, and from the foreign exchange...
...pinnacle. Said Brown: "Walter had the quickness and the moves and the instincts of just a great runner. He was the most impressive back that I've seen come into the league in a long time." Fred O'Connor, Chicago's backfield coach, was moved to assert: "God must have taken a chisel and said, 'I'm gonna make me a halfback.' " O'Connor, God knows, seems to be right...
...reasons to be upset. The company was invited to set up an accounting-machine plant in Bombay in 1951 by Jawaharlal Nehru; he believed India could assert its independence only by building up its own industries, but felt that this could best be accomplished if fledgling Indian firms operated in tandem with foreign companies. Under the leadership of Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi, the government pushed the notion of industrial nationalism much further. Indian officials assert that India's struggling state-owned Computer Maintenance Corp. could service the IBM equipment in the country without difficulty; after all, that...
Most important, critics assert-correctly-that on many decisions carrying great economic impact the economic advisers have no voice at all or are overruled. Blumenthal and Schultze had only marginal influence on the energy and Social Security reform programs, two of the most important projects affecting the economy since the Inauguration. While Schultze has been urging tax cuts, those two programs will hit the economy with a double whammy of multibillion-dollar tax hikes that may halt growth. Officials concede the economic impact of some programs was not sufficiently taken into account but add that only the President can weigh...
PUMA members charge that both the wording and the enforcement of most prostitution laws are sexist, prohibiting women but not men from selling their bodies. Also, union members assert that police often arrest prostitutes while letting the customer go free. Members differ in their positions on shortterm legal reforms, but the group is adamant in its demand for ultimate decriminalization. It supports decriminalization as opposed to legalization because the former would eliminate legal hassles, while legalization might entail residual government restrictions...