Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson's tide went out to sea for just a bit too long. With three-and-a-half minutes remaining in the game, the team began to regroup and assert itself once more...
Reagan himself is not quite the detached Chairman of the Board of popular myth, or so his aides assert. They insist that he studies briefing papers longer and in more detail than the public ever suspects. The President can be fiercely decisive on matters that involve his ideological principles. The troika had to restrain him last August from announcing his decision to fire the striking air-traffic controllers until the strike had actually begun. Reagan has even been known to overrule a unanimous troika opinion on issues about which he feels deeply. The three all thought last summer that...
...pattern showed no signs of reversing itself, as the Maroons quickly added 11 points to their lead. Eight minutes into the period, Kleinfelder sent freshman Val Jordan and sophomore Jenny Rudolph in to join starters Pat Horne, Wendy Joseph, and Marget Long, and the rejuvenated five began to assert itself...
...comes down to the man. No one else can assert his authority clearly, or sketch the vision, or compel loyalty or design a comfortable and efficient structure for him. Reagan alone must seize events and move ahead of them...
...freeze-dried commodities." He continues, "Our problem as a society is that we have fostered disconnectedness: we have created a false separateness between social research and policy making, thinking and politics, ideas and power." Giamatti's sole obsession in these essays--aside from a peculiar affinity to the word "assert," which he uses about once per page--seems to be the importance of education in developing a sense of citizenship. Referring to Plato's Statesman he writes that "education furthers the weaving of the web of the state, meshing as in a tapestry the various type of citizens...