Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while professors today assert that the department has fallen in line with Harvard's more traditional--and less controversial--departments, it still has its troubles...
Students, however, continued to assert thatthey were not adequately represented, and mostradicals felt that even the most 'liberal'professors did not really have students' interestsat heart during the protracted debates aboutgovernance...
...that of any new President in recent memory. Though the President cannot get anything done without the cooperation of at least some members of the Democratic congressional majorities, the task of wooing them will now be harder. Within the Administration, the absence of a Secretary of Defense able to assert the Pentagon's view will prolong the review of foreign and national-security problems that Bush insists on completing before he makes major international- policy moves...
...Kiss-in itself was intended to be self-affirmative in nature. Through the Kiss-in, we sought to assert our own good feelings for each other in public and express our sadness that homophobia exists at Harvard. We said that "Bigoted harassments against any group are unacceptable and will not be tolerated." We were asking everyone to join us in protesting a series of homophobic harassments and condemning bigoted reactions to any conflict...
...held without bail, faces a possible 30 years in prison and $750,000 in fines. His alleged crimes include gaining illegal access to computers at Digital Equipment Corp., in Massachusetts, and at the University of Leeds, in England, and stealing valuable computer programs and long-distance phone services. Prosecutors assert that it cost Digital $4 million to repair and upgrade its computer-security program after Mitnick's intrusion. He is believed to be the first person charged under a new federal law that prohibits breaking into an interstate computer network for criminal purposes...