Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember that the partnership of parents and neighbors, civic leaders and politicians must agree that the schools are the most important single asset the community holds in common. Let us assert that the duty of that partnership is to decide that the first priority for public money is the school system. And let us insist that schools have a role and obligation in the treasured common life beyond just schooling. When we have reassembled a vision of the purpose of school and of the means of education, then we can pass to the rebuilding of what is both a system...
...told reporters, as Haig returned from a NATO foreign ministers' meeting that had endorsed the American hard line blaming Soviet militarism for the breakdown of East-West relations. After two months of squabbling between Haig and the President's top aides, the Secretary had stopped trying to assert his prerogatives and had started pledging to be a team player. Reagan's enthusiastic welcome home, accompanied by a pointedly symbolic "photo opportunity" of the two men posing, was the clearest signal yet that Haig's new-found deference has probably saved...
...paid too little attention to foreign policy successes. Relations with the European allies, bumpy at best during the Carter years, are much improved. The Secretary believes that disagreements with Japan and China are being smoothed over. Thanks to U.S. military and economic assistance, he is overly eager to assert, leftists have been thwarted in El Salvador and the junta headed by José Napoleón Duarte appears stronger. Haig, and indeed White House aides, claim that they deserve more credit for the unglamorous but essential jobs of improving relations with Canada, Mexico and especially Jamaica, whose new moderate government...
...Psychologist Abraham Maslow, work functions in a hierarchy of needs: first, work provides food and shelter, basic human maintenance. After that, it can address the need for security and then for friendship and "belongingness." Next, the demands of the ego arise, the need for aspect. Finally, men and women assert a larger desire for "self-actualization." That seems a harmless and even worthy enterprise but sometimes degenerates into self-infatuation, a vaporously selfish discontent that dead-ends in isolation, the empty "ace that gazes back from the mirror...
...over Latin America, the U.S. is taking the side of repressive, elite-controlled regimes. By working to prevent that support, we will help workers and campesinos within each country to assert themselves politically, to challenge the injustice of their own situations, and to determine their own destinies...