Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most experts agree that Andropov does not yet possess and may never achieve the power necessary to effect profound changes in the Soviet Union. It took several years before Khrushchev and Brezhnev were able to assert themselves as the Soviet Union's unchallenged leaders. Says Harvard's Adam Ulam: "The process of succession does not begin with the death of a leader, nor does it end with the designation of his successor...
...Rhode Island, Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, John Danforth of Missouri and Robert Stafford of Vermont, barely withstood strong challenges. The fact that they finally won will ensure the survival of the party's moderate wing; the fact that they came so close to losing will cause colleagues to assert their independence of a President whose policies proved a burden at the polls...
...discovery that his last surviving buddy from the old unit has died of cancer. Escorted out of a small town by an overzealous sheriff who mistakes him for a hippie (there is a certain antique air about the movie, which is based on a 1972 novel), he returns to assert his right to come and go as he pleases. This leads to jail, a breakout and the extraordinary wilderness chase that occupies the bulk of the film. In it, Stallone stands off not only the sheriffs blundering posse but, eventually, hundreds of tangle-footed tenderfeet from the National Guard...
...United States is at least partially to blame for the continued chaos in El Salvador. Somehow, the Reagan Administration has managed to assert that the new government is making progress on human rights. This runs contrary to all available evidence but suffices to convince Congress to send more guns and military assistance to El Salvador So'd' Aubuisson believes he has a free hand to do as he pleases...
...Democrats decided they did not even have to bother with the charade, and the substitute was beaten by a resounding 346 to 77. The Republican amendment then got 236 votes in favor to 187 against, less than the two-thirds needed for passage. Reagan stepped before the cameras to assert: "I share the deep burning anger of millions of Americans." It was a sample of the oratory and exaggeration that the voters will be hearing more and more of as the campaign heats up and the recession grinds on. -By George J. Church...