Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Talk to Biagio DiLieto, Mayor of New Haven, and he will assert that Yale's youngest president in nearly three generations is the messiah of New Haven...
...administrators assert that Harvard's unique system of independent schools makes it virtually impossible for the University to establish a comprehensive plan that is comparable to those of other universities...
...resolution of these tensions should be found in the Oval Office. But Reagan has found it extremely difficult to assert himself as either a moderator or a decision maker. A number of decisions he has announced, including the most recent INF initiative, were compromises jerry-rigged from competing options favored by the different agencies...
Regardless of the size of the road, the rigs themselves may pose a safety hazard: critics say they are harder to control and more prone to jackknife than smaller trucks. Truck drivers assert, however, that tandem trailers, known in the industry as "double bottoms," are safer than smaller rigs because they have extra axles and better weight distribution. But there is little question that the larger rigs will batter the nation's interstate highway system, initiated in 1956 for trucks far less hefty than today...
...nations' definitions differ. For Moscow, parity is not simply an equal level of forces but also an equal position in world affairs, including the license to meddle in Third World affairs as the Americans do. What emerges from Holloway's appraisal of Soviet policy is their determination to assert their status as a world power, which, despite Reagan's denials...