Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year when women are trying valiantly to assert themselves as intelligent leaders of society, political thinkers, educational reformers, etc., I find it disheartening to discover once more a TIME cover depicting the beautifully brainless. Why don't you put Miss America on your next cover and install Bert Parks on your board of directors? Okeydoke, artichoke...
There could be little optimism, however, about the Council's limitations on press freedoms. Much of the media has already been nationalized, but the Council said that it would assert editorial control over radio and television. The Council also threatened foreign journalists who report what it called "false and distorted news" about Portugal, saying that though the "present law does not permit action against these prevaricators," it would consider new legislation to restrict them...
...payroll or defaulting on a loan. At week's end state and city officials were haggling over the creation of a new state agency that would take the city into a partial receivership. The agency would temporarily bail out New York at the same time that it would assert some control over city finances-a humiliating but well-deserved intrusion on mismanaged home rule...
...petard. It was Benn who in 1972 first proposed the Common Market referendum. At the time, opinion polls were reporting a solid 2-to-1 antiMarket majority. Benn saw the referendum as an ideal vehicle to propel himself into leadership of a populist left-wing movement that would assert its supremacy over the pro-Market establishment in the Labor Party. With the help of enormous and largely hostile press publicity, he turned the referendum into a plebiscite on himself as well as the EEC. It now seems that Benn overplayed his hand. A recent poll among Labor voters gives Benn...
...number of panelists cautioned that this has created a dispersal of power and a leadership vacuum that could work to the advantage of a strong President. To prevent this, panelists argued, either the party leaders in both chambers must act more forcefully or the unwieldy party caucus must assert itself...