Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers, "I think that if my mother had remained in Japan, she would have been an ordinary Japanese housewife. Going to Manchuria, she was able to assert her own personality, and that left its mark...
...sounds like an advertisement from the National Bank of Hungary. As long as Hungary belongs to the Warsaw Pact, its bankers and businessmen cannot seriously be considered independent thinkers. After Poland's failure, the Kremlin is using Hungary in its desperate search for Western credits. Although you assert that Hungary has the "most efficient economy in the Communist world," the truth is that the Communist economic system simply does not work...
...escape this mad honky, Billy Ray dashes into the club where, under the eyes of the Duke brothers, he is arrested. The old boys have just been discussing nature vs. nurture. Mortimer (Don Ameche) holds that genetics is destiny, that the natural nobility of a chap like Winthorpe will assert itself no matter what his circumstances, and that a fellow like Billy Ray Valentine will resort to criminality no matter how well the world treats him. Brother Randolph (Ralph Bellamy) holds the opposite, that people are shaped by the manner in which the world treats them. Forthwith...
...energies to community service and downplays the significance of minority involvement on campus. And keeping pace with both of those developments has been the success of cultural groups--the Black C.A.S.T. Drama group; the Kuumba Singers; Expressions, a dance group; and the literary magazine Diaspora--which have begun to assert themselves as independent organizations after initially being under the auspices of BSA through its sister organization, the Afro-American Cultural Center...
...live is that the whites will not initiate any change in the status quo because it could lead to their destruction. At the same time, since the whites are so firmly entrenched in control, no change can occur without their support. Therefore it is essential that foreign powers assert whatever influence they have in order to nudge the whites into permitting reform they...