Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actress playing a Saudi boutique owner confides that many smart Saudi women come to such shops for assignations. In one lurid segment, royal ladies are shown cruising a desert lovers' lane in chauffeur-driven limousines in search of casual amours. In fact, people familiar with Saudi Arabia assert that there are no such pick-up strips outside Jeddah or Riyadh, and that the whole picture of royal carnality in the film is a gross distortion. Reports TIME'S Beirut bureau chief William Stewart: "In Saudi Arabia, of all places, such a scene is unimaginable. By and large...
Vance is confident that Ed Muskie will assert himself with, and over, Brzezinski, and that Muskie shares Vance's approach to U.S.-Soviet relations. The former Secretary is urging Muskie to keep the tentative date Vance had made to meet with Andrei Gromyko in Vienna this month...
...considering the Muskie appointment, we should not be diverted by whether Muskie will "stand up" to Zbigniew Brzezinski more effectively than did Vance. Even if he does, the consequences for policy are likely to be marginal. The question is whether he will assert views that differ significantly from the President's. The further question is whether the President would submit to his Secretary's views, should they differ markedly from his own. To both questions, the answer is probably...
...McLean Hospital. All he wanted to do was to write down a few of his co-workers' suggestions for improving working conditions at the Children's Center. In return for his initiative, the hospital suspended him. Since then, Malin has been fighting a complicated legal battle against McLean to assert his rights to speech inside the workplace...
...Reagan's "national constituency" does not assert itself by the time Florida rolls around, it will be time to put the former actor out to pasture. They said it in '76, when he almost scared Gerry Ford out of the nomination, but this time it's for real. If he's going to capture enough votes to be taken seriously, Reagan will have to hire more than a few pollsters to set him straight again. Only then will he dare to step out of the motor-cade, without fear of being run over by a sweat-suited Bush