Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They assert that the Guide is not an authoritative measure of instructors' teaching abilities...
...writing to take issue with statements' made by Senior Class Gift/Harvard College Fund chairpersons Kelly Klegar and Robert Keane. As reported in The Crimson on February 9 and in their letter to the editors published February 12, Ms. Klegar and Mr. Keane wrongfully assert that donations to the Harvard College Fund through the Senior Class Gift do not support Harvard's purchase of South Africa-related stocks. In fact, these donations offset funds which would otherwise be diverted from the University's investment income to cover operations and financial aid expenses Contributions to the Senior Class Gift permit this income...
...members of the Coordinating Committee of the Endowment for Divestiture (E4D), we would like to express our differences with Ms. Klegar and Mr. Keane on one other point. They assert that there is no contradiction-in giving to both funds. We disagree. In believing that contributions to the Harvard College Fund indicate tacit support of the University's current South Africa investment policy, we call upon seniors to examine the merits of the issues involved and to consider denating to Harvard only through the Endowment for Divestiture. We sincerely hope that this money will go towards undergraduate education. The money...
...less of the object of one's affections; it is quite common in most languages to add a diminutive suffix to a name (in Russian, ya, in Greek, oula, in Irish, een) so as to express fond feelings. Psychologists might suggest that the purpose of these diminutions is to assert the superiority of lover to loved one ("my pet"), but the effect diminishes all parties. We have created these words as verbal comforters, warm safety zones, wherein anyone, no matter how high and mighty, is free to sound like a nitwit...
...investments in companies operating in South Africa. The truth of the matter is that Senior Gift donations directly support Harvard's South African investments by freeing up funds for the University's capital endowment which would otherwise be spent on current programs. It is disingenuous at best to assert that donations to the Senior Gift are untainted by the immorality of Harvard's investments in apartheid because they themselves are not directly invested...