Word: asserting
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...short, Israel is the victim of a perverse double standard. When the Hews assert their right to a secure homeland, the world calls them "war-mongers" and "Nazis." When the PLO tries to destroy Israel through terrorism, other nations sympathize with a people who "just wants a place to call home...
Another compelling reason for publicity is to assert firmly Harvard's commitment to make women welcome in the 350-year-old boys' club. With so few female professors and administrators, Harvard already seems an institution ill-equipped to deal with a matter like sexual harassment. Although Lewis has said that more than 25 women came to her this year alone with complaints of sexual harassment--and this is no doubt the tip of a much larger iceberg--each of these women is made to feel that she is the only one. Only when cases of sexual harassment are publicized...
John Kennedy was the most forthright in his alternating moods. Many nights he sank into a black fatalism, telling friends it was a certainty that somebody, some time, would launch a nuclear salvo. Within minutes he could change personality and assert that it was his job to modify the lessons of history...
Administration officials and members of Congress have argued that the March elections in El Salvador were the start of a true democratic process. Military aid, they assert, affirms the U.S. support for this process. But that contention seems questionable at best. More significantly, it appears a mere excuse for those who all along have been anxious to step up military aid. The leftist guerillas had been willing to run for the Assembly provided unconditional negotiations among all sides took place beforehand. But Washington insisted on elections first, talks later--driving the rebels from the polls for fear of retribution...
Perkins is quick to assert that HIID would never consider a project in a country with a record of "extreme human rights violations." He cites the Central African Republic under Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa as an example of such an extreme case. Crowned in a garrish ceremony attended by many world leaders in the mid-70s, Bokassa was forced to abdicate his throne because of widespread accusations that he had personally murdered, and later eaten, dozens of schoolchildren...