Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rest of the half was a seesaw battle The Crimson, though clearly more talented, could not assert itself enough to wrest control of the game. Goalie Lisa Rowning and the Harvard defense held the Big Green scoreless...
Summed up Prosecutor Martin L. Fisher: "The motive behind this crime is the protection of Mr. Odierno and Mr. Buono, their associates and their connections in high political office. That connection, the people assert, is Mr. Raymond Donovan...
...unlikely winner enjoyed itself more than any fan, reached the end zone multiple times and stymied the referees' attempts to assert control. The jet-black Labrador retriever stole the show ... and one of the orange endline markers...
...which from the start we considered impossible and undesirable. Instead we aim for fairness and balance. Since the introduction of bylines in 1970 (writers had labored anonymously before), many individual voices have been heard in TIME. Even so, we maintain a broad consistency of policy and beliefs. But we assert these beliefs with less evangelical fervor than was sometimes the case in the past. The change does not so much reflect an American crisis of faith?though that crisis is real?as indicate the world's growing diversity and complexity...
Some experts assert that the high-yielding certificates will further befuddle savers, who already face a bewildering range of choices over where to put their cash. "With all the NOWs, money-market accounts and CDs, consumers are shell-shocked and totally confused," says Richard Bove, a leading banking analyst for Shearson/ American Express. Nevertheless, bankers and savings and loan executives are expected to push the deregulated certificates, if only to keep customers from taking their business to competitors across the street...