Word: asserting
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Messer also notes that the Fogg's curatorial system "adds a dimension of complication." Since many Fogg curators are also tenured faculty members. "It's more difficult to assert directorial authority," he says...
None of these cases is so revolutionary as to warrant the Justice Department's comment or intervention; rather, each seems a new pretext for the Administration to assert its predetermined stance on civil rights policies. Even the Boston case, which presents the legitimate constitutional question of whether seniority plans are exempt from remedial affirmative action, is by no means a glaring case of unwarranted reverse discrimination. All race-conscious hiring plans seem destined to create some backlash for white workers, and courts have repeatedly asserted that it is not unreasonable to ask whites to forego advantage they enjoy because...
...goes down to the White House regularly to see the President has been fascinated these past few days, watching the struggle between the two men who live inside the durable body of Ronald Reagan. There is the after-dinner rouser with his cue-card homilies, still struggling to assert himself in a profligate world. Then there is this other fellow, who, when he at last stirs himself, can recognize reality: like 12 million unemployed and a possible $200 billion deficit...
...certainly the costliest. Detroit is the nation's fifth largest metropolitan area (pop. 4.4 million); its News and Free Press are the ninth and tenth largest U.S. dailies. The owners of the morning Free Press (circ. 632,000) acknowledge that the paper lost $9 million last year. They assert that the all-day competitor, the News (circ. 643,000), lost twice that much in 1982, even though it has a solid 60%-to-40% lead in advertising linage, largely because the News offers discounted ad and circulation rates. News executives decline to comment. Losses have accelerated during the recession...
...Corporation's intransigence follows unsubstantiated belief that holding money in a company allows them more leverage than threatening to take the funding away. But divestment proponents question whether any company working in South Africa can effectively bring about equality. They assert that even in firms adhering to the Sullivan principles--a corporate code of ethics for firms doing business in the country--Blacks earn substantially less than whites They also note that while the number of firms adhering to these guidelines has increased, so has the white minority's repressive activities. In examining his rejection of the divestiture legislation. King...