Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proper role of the Undergraduate Council is to promote campus social life. Indeed this is an important function of the U.C. The council should follow last year's successful Elvis Costello concert and "Big Party" with more concerts and more campus-wide events. It is incorrect, however, to assert that this is the only function that the council can and should perform. Council history has shown that representing student interests and promoting social life are not incompatible goals of student government...
...love in the '80s. Men who cry. Women who compete. Fathers who nurture. Mothers who assert themselves. Shared feelings between equal partners. Equal shares of housework and orgasms. Two rewarding careers; two fulfilling love lives. At last, a peaceful resolution to the war between the sexes. Right...
What would English literature -- or for that matter, English sexuality -- have done without gamy gamekeepers, lurking unrepressed in the gorse, ready to help the privileged class assert its true randy nature? What the ineffable Mellors did for Lady Chatterley, Alec Scudder (Rupert Graves) does for Maurice Hall (James Wilby) in this adaptation of E.M. Forster's fantasy about physically fulfilling the love that once upon a time dared not speak its name...
...think America has a vital interest topreserve in the Persian Gulf," Babbitt said. "Wemust assert that interest...
...ruled this way against business plaintiffs. In one widely noted case, he also dissented when his colleagues upheld the right of a bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives to bring suit in opposition to President Reagan's use of a pocket veto. Bork went so far there as to assert that courts should "renounce outright the whole notion of congressional standing...