Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were studs was just as oppressive as being told they could not take care of their families," she says. As a consequence, Black men "were doomed to protest in the way in which they had been programmed. The most immediately gratifying way young Black men of the '60s could assert their manhood was by having a White woman or oppressing Black women...
Nancy Randolph, special assistant to the president--"Assert yourselves to awesome and marvelous tasks to begin with your manifestations and limitations to share and then to participate, involving yourselves in the lives of many different people you will meet and work with. Let your being here make a difference...
...petitioned Washington to roll back imports. They argue that the sudden surge threatens the domestic industry. Ford and the U.A.W. contend further that Japan is taking unfair advantage of an artificially weak yen and international trade rules that allow them to export their products cheaply to the U.S. They assert that as a result of this the essentially identical cars made in Japan can cost less in the U.S. than in other countries...
Maintaining that the Carter Administration has lacked a "coherent strategic concept to guide foreign policy," the G.O.P. considers the President's human rights campaign to be naive and dangerous. The Republicans assert that the policy has scarcely improved life in Communist nations and severely penalized some U.S. allies with "the loss of U.S. commercial access and economic and military assistance." Says the G.O.P.: "We will return to the fundamental principle of treating a friend as a friend and self-proclaimed enemies as enemies...
When a close Carter aide found out that the President was going to Washington's National Cathedral to pray with the families of the hostages, he knew instinctively that the U.S. would not for the time being assert its power in any way that might jeopardize the hostages. For months Carter resisted using the rescue plan devised by his National Security experts. He was consumed by fear of losing individual lives in such an operation. The hostage crisis was incorporated into his political campaign, and from the Rose Garden he sounded the theme of peace, noting proudly that...