Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Springing from the complicated relationship between pampered Jewish boy and his doting, suffocating mother, shiksa-ism sees the mama's boy hunting outside the tribe partly in spite and partly to assert his independence...
...because China is a huge country that tends toward fractiousness at any sign of uncertainty in Peking. "Already," says a foreign diplomat, "we are seeing signs of provinces erecting trade barriers against goods from other areas." Economic improvement varies from region to region, and vested interests have begun to assert themselves. Chongqing, the country's largest city, was criticized last spring by Peking for refusing to send its bonus taxes to the central government. The People's Daily reported that half of all state- and collectively run enterprises were cheating on their taxes. Deng's government is concerned that jealousies...
...this breeds a shadow society where traditional values are scarce and violence is promiscuous. For young black men, violence can become a warped form of self-assertion, a kind of "I kill, therefore I am." Snuffing out another life perversely affirms their own. Almost 40 years ago, Ralph Ellison wrote in Invisible Man about violence as a way for black men to assert their existence to themselves: "You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world, that you're a part of all the sound and anguish...
Beyond its admonitions about graduate student teaching and research, the Strauch Report offers no prescriptions for educational policy at the GSAS. Moore will have to chart her own course if she wishes to abandon the laissez faire style of her predecessors and assert herself in the school's academic mission...
Other hostages told TV interviewers that they were being treated well by the Amal militiamen who had taken them away from the original hijackers, and their appearance did not contradict those assertions. Three hostages were interviewed by ABC's Charles Glass at the end of lunch in what looked like a pleasant seaside cafe near Beirut. Conwell, who lives in Muscat, Oman, went so far as to assert that "many in our group have a profound sympathy for the cause" of their Amal captors, namely freedom for 745 Lebanese held in an Israeli prison...