Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inquiries, destroying or altering evidence, even coaching witnesses on how to testify falsely and paying large sums to others to keep quiet, the Carter White House vowed to cooperate fully with the Senate investigation. Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell announced that he and his aides do not expect to assert claims of Executive privilege to avoid answering questions, that all relevant documents will be readily supplied, that even the President will make himself available for questioning "consistent with the responsibilities and time constraints of his office." Powell explained that Carter might invite the Senators to the Oval Office rather than...
...emphasis on unity, however, some rancorous quarrels erupted during the preconvention maneuvering last week, and they could lead to trouble in the fall campaign. A certain militant element of the G.O.P. right wing still seems determined to assert its strength even if it hurts the party and the party's new leader. It was an indication that for some true believers, ideology is still more important than winning an election. Their special target was the Equal Rights Amendment. Reagan aides had already watered down the party's traditional support of ERA, which runs through most conventions back...
Politics was rarely absent from the pageantry, and Giscard seized several occasions to assert what he called the "independence and power of Europe." At a state banquet near Bonn, for example, he startled his hosts somewhat by calling for a "renaissance of European influence," led by France and Germany, and "the reappearance of an independent and self-assured Europe in world affairs...
...toned-down version, of arousing unrealistic expectations in the P.L.O. of what Israel can be expected to concede and encourages the Arabs to play off the Americans against the Europeans. It is difficult to explain this initiative in any terms other than Europe's trying to assert an illusory independence and seeking good karma with the oil suppliers...
...body of 39 representatives known as the Presidium. In fact, political power rests with a gigantic, self-protecting and self-selecting bureaucracy that is effectively controlled by a small and cautious elite. The constitution adopted in 1977 -the fourth in the history of the U.S.S.R.-was the first to assert the primacy of the Communist Party in Soviet government and life. The country's only legal party is identified as the "nucleus" of the system and its sole authority on ideology. To maintain control, the party tightly restricts its membership: a candidate must have been a member of Komsomol...