Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other hand, hopes are high that Reagan will swiftly assert more leadership than Carter did. Two-thirds of those questioned expect noticeable results in that aspect of presidential performance within the first year of the Reagan Administration. Similarly, voters anticipate a fast turnaround in the relationship between the President and Congress, with 71% saying it is realistic to expect improvement within a year...
...Vance: "He really was in every sense an alter ego to me." Christopher intended to resign last April if he was not named to succeed Vance. In the end, however, Carter and the new Secretary, Edmund Muskie, persuaded him to stay on. For the past eight months, some observers assert, Christopher has been the Secretary in all but name, while Muskie has concerned himself chiefly with the public side...
Schell speaks Chinese and can end-run an official travel brochure; yet, he never seems certain if Benefit-the-People was a pimp or just a young punk playing at the second oldest profession. What impresses him is the new willingness of many Chinese to assert their opinions and desires. Says one young woman who dreams of becoming a fashion designer: "Of course I want what is best for myself during my life. I think that is only human nature." Schell finds such sentiments to be radical departures from the orthodoxy of the founding father. It is as if people...
...undermining of self, of a woman's sense of her right to occupy space and walk freely in the world...The capacity to think independently, to take intellectual risks, to assert ourselves menatlly, is inseparable from our physical way of being in the world, our feelings of physical integrity...
...this Saturday's H/R Take Back the Night march, students have a chance to dramatically present their objections to campus life and to demand for women the same autonomy that men already have. The march is designed to empower women, to encourage them to assert themselves. Women can and should provide emotional, intellectual, and artistic inspiration for other women. This can happen during the march and hopefully can continue for a long time afterwards...