Word: asserting
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...gives the U.S. the right to defend the canal's "neutrality" beyond the year 2000. Both must be okayed by the Senate. Not clear, though, is whether a majority of the House will have to approve the first treaty, since it involves disposal of U.S. property. Moving to assert the authority of the lower house, New York's conservative Democratic Congressman John Murphy, chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, summoned Bunker and Linowitz to a hurriedly convened hearing. His committee, Murphy said, was not about to watch the canal "go down the drain" without some...
...many of them women who have experienced childbirth in hospitals, are passionately unimpressed by such arguments. Where prenatal screening is properly practiced, they say, most of those births likely to need specialized care can be anticipated-and handled in hospitals. But at least 90% of births are uncomplicated, they assert, and in those cases women often find themselves in the hands of an overworked hospital staff and subject to perhaps unnecessary procedures. Says a registered nurse and lay midwife in California: "Just in case the woman tears, the hospital does an episiotomy; just in case she bleeds, they give...
...offices in New York two weeks ago because Union lawyers had been representing Nazis, and some members have quit as a result. Says Victor Rosenblum, Professor of Law at Northwestern: "I don't accept that the same points are involved in marches by civil rights groups seeking to assert basic constitutional rights, and the efforts of Nazis to tell Jews in Skokie they belong back in the oven...
...complaints that the new supplements, plus the suburban editions, court the suburbs at the expense of urbanites, Times editors insist that the paper has not reduced the amount of money, staff or space it lavishes on New York City news. They also assert that...
Wimbledon in its centenary year paid loving homage to the old-strawberries and cream in the members' enclosure, curtsies toward the royal box and a nostalgic center court fete for former champions. Then, abruptly a fresh generation of tennis prodigies used Wimbledon's hallowed grounds to assert their claims on tomorrow...