Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a point to Becks teaching style. "I've tried to minimize all things that stand between teacher and student," he says. Veterans of the course assert this means Gut. "I could have missed class every day and still have done the work," a student wrote in Northwestern's version of the CUE guide...
...society, said The New York Times's Gilbert Millstein in 1957. The difference between now and then is that in 1984 there is less physical room for a counter culture to flourish, and that we are more cynical than disillusioned. Twenty-five years ago, the Beats could still assert the validity of mystical experience as a refuge: these days, mystics are regarded as nuts...
...concerned, you can throw it away." He has blamed high interest rates on the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve Board, not the heavy federal borrowing requirements created by high deficits, the culprit cited by most economists. At one point he went so far as to assert that "there is no necessary cause-effect link between deficits and interest rates." Asked last year if he agreed with Regan's assessment of the deficit situation, Exxon Corp. Chairman Clifton Garvin Jr. responded tartly, "It depends on what hour of the day he said...
...winter may well not be cause for celebration or, given this week's temperatures, nostalgia. Many scientists are now claiming that the consequences of the long-predicted "Greenhouse effect"--the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from air pollution causing temperature increases--are finally being felt. They assert that it is more than coincidence that the greatest temperature rises in the past few years have occurred Boston, New York and Los Angeles--cities with the most severe pollution problems...
...cause a greater build-up of carbon dioxide. Deforestation and the decreasing ability of ocean sediments to absorb carbon dioxide ,for example, has severely disrupted the carbon cycle--the process by which terrestrial life absorbs and breaks down carbon compounds and emits pure carbon into the atmosphere. Climatologists assert that the unexpectedly high atmospheric carbon dioxide level that has been recorded in recent years is in large part due to massive deforestation projects in South America and the Soviet Union...