Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rebel offensives of the decade. Media attention has focused on the possibility of a rebel victory, allegedly presided over by the Soviets and their Cuban and Nicaraguan allies. No one mentions the possibility that the insurgents might be independently fighting to overthrow a brutal right-wing regime and to assert El Salvador's right to self-determination...
First, you assume that prices for tenants who might choose to purchase their homes would be $100,000 or, perhaps, $75,000; and then assert "most people can't afford $75,000, either." But the binding prices already offered by the largest landlord in the city are lower than that: 3/4 of the prices are below...
Second, you assert that a homeownership tax exemption would "discount the real estate tax value by about $50,000." But you do not explain that such a homeownership tax is not required by law for the next fiscal year, but would have to be voted by the next city council. And the supporters of Proposition 1-2-3 do not support such an exemption for tenants allowed to buy under Proposition 1. Just because we support a choice of homeownership does not mean we want the city to subsidize it, in any way. Instead, the plan...
...agent nonchalantly waltzes in to rent a couple of dirty movies and waltzes in a few days later with orders to seize not just that store, but every one in the chain. That kind of multi-million dollar ante doesn't exactly encourage store managers to vigorously assert their free speech rights by testing what does and doesn't violate community standards...
Current and former CITES staff members and consultants have actively led the fight against the proposed ivory ban. In July, Yoshio Kaneko, a staffer originally on loan from the Japanese government, wrote an editorial in a Tokyo daily on behalf of CITES, exhorting Japan and the trade to assert their economic interests and oppose the ban. And Zimbabwe's position paper against the ban, to be offered at this week's meeting, was written by former CITES staffer Huxley, who received $5,000 in funding for the study from the Japanese ivory association...