Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gasohol advocates point out, the Government now encourages farmers to hold down their grain crops, so expanding production would not be too difficult. Moreover, alcohol can be produced from a variety of infinitely renewable sources. Though U.S. distillers now use mainly corn as their alcohol base, experts assert that just about any substance with a high starch or sugar content could be used, including wheat, potatoes and sugar cane...
Inflation is harmful in so far as it is uneven and unpredictable. To assert that major U.S. corporations have neither the knowledge to anticipate future cost increases, nor the ability to transfer that cost to the consumer in product prices, is to deny fundamental truths about multinational capitalism. The investment decision for these US-based firms, most of which continue to show record profits (out of which their investment is principally funded), is not so much a question of "if" but "where." Their tendency to choose foreign locations over domestic is the real problem with investment in America. Given...
...your article "Surprise and Confusion" you state, "In ways not yet fully clear, the sight of Iran reduced to anarchy has brought into question Washington's ability and determination to support its allies and to assert what the nation stands for." And just what does this nation stand for? Is it self-determination by the majority of a people, or continued American economic and military hegemony over the "free" world...
...Hanoi government is much better at cloaking its repression under the banner of the public good, or blaming mysterious "counter-revolutionaries" for unpopular curtailments of freedom, the men assert...
Meanwhile, the Bazargan regime moved quickly to try to assert its authority. In the northwest, near Iran's border with Iraq, Khomeini loyalists battled with members of Iran's Kurdish minority, who hoped that the upheaval might help them realize their longtime dream of breaking away from Tehran's control. Other revolutionary groups disarmed the few military units still loyal to the Shah. In Tehran, shopkeepers happily set out red and pink carnations to celebrate the reopening of the city's long shuttered bazaar district, and children marched off to classes in newly reopened schools...