Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neither team could assert control for most of the third quarter, but the little things let on that Harvard would not blow this chance for an upset. Little things like six-ft. five-in. Mark Harris, who boxed out Outlaw all night, having the guts to draw an offensive foul early in the third quarter just ten seconds after he got called for his third personal. Little things like Don Fleming's rejuvenated shooting touch which made him the game's top scorer with 22 points on 8-13 shooting...
Parker reserves her greatest criticism for faculty attempts to gain control over administrative decisions. Her experience with the Bennington faculty leads her to assert that college professors are unwilling or unable to share responsibility for the financial solvency of their institutions. They refuse to make realistic projections about the future of higher education, based on the financial problems facing them. This refusal to contribute in an effective way to solving critical problems reduces their insistence on greater input to a joke, she says. Parker may have overreacted to their short-sightedness, though, by failing to solicit adequate faculty input...
...Simes: "As they consolidate their power, they will be tough and ruthless, particularly domestically and in Eastern Europe." Harvard's Huntington agrees that there is "not a very happy period" ahead for U.S.-Soviet relations. Says he: "The Soviets obviously believe that the time has come for them to assert themselves on the global scene and to capitalize on the military might that they have been building up for so many years...
...whole world, for all international relations still depend partly on various nations' judgments about other nations' ability and willingness to use force. Regardless of the issues or moralities involved, a nation that does occasionally assert itself is often subsequently treated with greater care...
...many of the theological students who presumably knew him best. Some of the most basic facts about his life are matters of conjecture, largely because Khomeini regards such personal details as unimportant. It is not known whether his birth date is actually May 17, 1900, as Tehran newspapers assert, or whether his wife of 50 years?Quesiran, or Khadijah, as different spellings have it?is his first or second spouse. Almost all Western translations of his basic prerevolutionary teachings are of doubtful authenticity or accuracy. In particular, a howlingly funny French translation of some of his remarks?dealing with, among...