Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...truth is that whatever claim Reagan might have for praise on the economy, he has none whatsoever for his diplomacy and military policy, for which he can assert not one triumph-unless one notches a "victory" over a few hundred over-matched Cubans in Grenada Atlantic Alliance firmly through the tribulations of Euromissile deployment, but this is hogwash. Any praise that is to be given ought go to our European allies, who were able to hold together, despite the wholly unreasonable approach to negotiations favoured by the United States...
...should be noted that not all Hispanic, Black, Asian, or Native American students would be offended by the usual denial of their backgrounds. That is a valid choice of idently and association which each individual must make. At Harvard, however, some students are being denied the opportunity to assert their cultural identity...
...foreign policy success. He could do little to defend his economic program-considered his strongest point. He will look even older and frailer when he has to answere for the first time in public, for three Lebanon bombings, his absurd nuclear posture toward the Soviet Union, his inability to assert American influence over anything larger than a golf course, and what amounts to terrorist activity in Nicaragua...
Both these theories leave many questions unanswered, and it would be difficult to choose between them or to assert that either will prove to be correct. In response to proponents of divestment, it seems most unlikely that corporate withdrawal would cause an economic collapse, since other companies would presumably take over the operations abandoned by American firms. Even assuming that withdrawal did hurt the economy substantially, the question still remains whether this result would being about the end of apartheid or simply cause more suffering, Black unemployment, and repression. This question seems all but impossible to answer, proponents of divestment...
...exceptional woman was forced to assert herself against all the odds. Annual pregnancy was the general rule; contraceptives were not widely introduced until the 18th century. Until then, couples relied on recipes−marjoram, "thyme, parsley, the juice of the herb savin−that did little good. A study of aristocratic women suggests that 45% died before 50, one-quarter of those in childbirth. If perpetual pregnancy did not do a woman in, smallpox well might. Life expectancy was 35. If a 17th century woman should survive to old age, she was in danger of being taken for a witch...