Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While some of the couples say it is relatively easy being engaged at Harvard, others assert there is little support or real understanding among their peers...
...Harvard officials recognize the truth that the Cannabis Corporation is engaged in no mischievous or unethical undertaking, then they lose the force of any moral argument for disposal of its stock. Even if they stubbornly assert that the potential for abuse is too great, or that somehow the marijuana might end up in the wrong hands or be used for sinister purposes, tactical considerations still suggest against rejecting a 15 percent interest in the firm. After all, presumably Harvard can better influence use of the THC from within the industry than as an outsider...
...band to days of old, profoundly empathizing with desires of the Punk culture in the streets: "Gonna get a great big car Gonna have some fun." "We Are the Clash," the third track, resorts to some of the most disgusting synthesizer misanthropy on the album. It attempts to assert that this, and not Jones's band, is the "real" Clash: "We ain't gonna be treated like trash...We are the Clash!" Oscar the Grouch couldn't have said it better...
...REER OF ORGANIZED groups, the Democrats should now be less afraid to aggressively assert their program rather than being wishy-washy and obsessively middle-of-the-road. They have to stop thinking in terms of left and right, and, trite as it sounds, have the courage of their convictions. They have to start taking risks, because they have nothing to lose...
...Pentagon dismissed Aspin's charges as "uninformed and inaccurate," and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger continued to assert that there was nothing basically wrong with the military establishment. "If a thing ain't broke," he has repeatedly argued, "don't fix it." But the Pentagon chief appears on the defensive. In a speech billed as a major exposition of U.S. defense strategy, Weinberger last week offered little more than vague generalities that failed to quiet his critics...