Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...improve relations with the U.S. and help win the release of American hostages in Lebanon on one condition: if the Reagan Administration provided Iran with a "good faith" shipment of weapons. In September McFarlane told Kimche that Reagan opposed any arms-for-hostages deal, but some U.S. officials assert the NSC chief did not object explicitly to Israel's supplying Iran on its own. Israel delivered a planeload of arms to Iran that month; just days later, Hostage Benjamin Weir was released...
...severely underestimates the stubborness that this involves, as evidenced by the state President P.W. Botha's statement to business leaders last week that he would not increase the pace of reform as it would look as if he was giving in to international pressures. The Afrikaaner desire to forcefully assert independence intensifies opposition to local reform...
...third grade. The delay of a couple of years would not greatly undermine his overall goal. But the largest problem entwined in sex-ed courses cannot be so easily evaded or resolved. The subject is impossible to teach without plunging into the question of values. Many educators assert that curriculums can be made value free, a dubious idea at best...
...learned from Manet: that black, far from signifying the absence of color, can read as a suave and powerful hue. Matisse's work, seen in this concentration, proves once more that in painting, innovation means nothing without a vital sense of the past. "I have simply wished to assert," he used to tell his students, echoing Courbet, "the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition...
...actions, including the bombing of a TWA plane over Greece last April, attacks at the Vienna and Rome airports last December and the bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut in October 1983. But solid proof has been hard to come by, which has allowed Assad to assert his innocence. Just three weeks ago, in an interview with TIME editors, he insisted that "no terrorist acts are carried out from Syria, by Syrians or others...